About the Authors
- Brian K. Chu
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* E-mail: bchu@taskforce.org, brian.chu@emory.edu.
Affiliation Neglected Tropical Diseases Support Center, Task Force for Global Health, Decatur, Georgia, United States of America
- Michael Deming
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Affiliation Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Nana-Kwadwo Biritwum
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Affiliation Department of Public Health, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana
- Windtaré R. Bougma
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Affiliation Programme National d'Élimination de la Filariose Lymphatique, Ministère de la Santé, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
- Améyo M. Dorkenoo
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Affiliation Programme National d'Élimination de la Filariose Lymphatique, Ministère de la Santé, Lomé, Togo
- Maged El-Setouhy
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Affiliation Department of Community, Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
- Peter U. Fischer
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Affiliation Infectious Diseases Division, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Katherine Gass
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Affiliation Neglected Tropical Diseases Support Center, Task Force for Global Health, Decatur, Georgia, United States of America
- Manuel Gonzalez de Peña
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Affiliation Centro National de Control de Enfermedades Tropicales, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
- Leda Mercado-Hernandez
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Affiliation Infectious Disease Office, National Center for Disease Prevention & Control, Manila, Philippines
- Dominique Kyelem
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Affiliation Neglected Tropical Diseases Support Center, Task Force for Global Health, Decatur, Georgia, United States of America
- Patrick J. Lammie
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Affiliation Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Rebecca M. Flueckiger
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Affiliation Neglected Tropical Diseases Support Center, Task Force for Global Health, Decatur, Georgia, United States of America
- Upendo J. Mwingira
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Affiliation Neglected Tropical Diseases Control Programme, National institute for Medical Research, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- Rahmah Noordin
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Affiliation Institute for Research in Molecular Medicine, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia
- Irene Offei Owusu
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Affiliation Epidemiology Department, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Legon, Ghana
- Eric A. Ottesen
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Affiliation Neglected Tropical Diseases Support Center, Task Force for Global Health, Decatur, Georgia, United States of America
- Alexandre Pavluck
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Affiliation Neglected Tropical Diseases Support Center, Task Force for Global Health, Decatur, Georgia, United States of America
- Nils Pilotte
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Ramakrishna U. Rao
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Dilhani Samarasekera
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Affiliation Anti Filariasis Campaign, Ministry of Health, Colombo, Sri Lanka
- Mark A. Schmaedick
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Affiliation Division of Community and Natural Resources, American Samoa Community College, Pago Pago, American Samoa
- Sunil Settinayake
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Affiliation Anti Filariasis Campaign, Ministry of Health, Colombo, Sri Lanka
- Paul E. Simonsen
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Affiliation Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Taniawati Supali
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Affiliation Department of Parasitology, University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
- Fasihah Taleo
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Affiliation Neglected Tropical Diseases Unit, Public Health Directorate, Port Vila, Vanuatu
- Melissa Torres
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Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Gary J. Weil
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Affiliation Infectious Diseases Division, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Kimberly Y. Won
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Affiliation Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: BKC MD KG DK PJL EAO KYW. Performed the experiments: BKC NKB WRB AMD MES PUF KG MGdP LMH DK RMF UJM RN IOO AP RUR DS MAS SS PES TS FT KYW. Analyzed the data: BKC MD NKB WRB AMD MGdP LMH UJM RN IOO DS SS TS FT GJW KYW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AP NP MT. Wrote the paper: BKC MD EAO.