About the Authors

Brian K. Chu

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

Affiliation Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Nana-Kwadwo Biritwum

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana

Windtaré R. Bougma

Affiliation Programme National d'Élimination de la Filariose Lymphatique, Ministère de la Santé, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Améyo M. Dorkenoo

Affiliation Programme National d'Élimination de la Filariose Lymphatique, Ministère de la Santé, Lomé, Togo

Maged El-Setouhy

Affiliation Department of Community, Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Peter U. Fischer

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Division, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Katherine Gass

Affiliation Neglected Tropical Diseases Support Center, Task Force for Global Health, Decatur, Georgia, United States of America

Manuel Gonzalez de Peña

Affiliation Centro National de Control de Enfermedades Tropicales, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Leda Mercado-Hernandez

Affiliation Infectious Disease Office, National Center for Disease Prevention & Control, Manila, Philippines

Dominique Kyelem

Affiliation Neglected Tropical Diseases Support Center, Task Force for Global Health, Decatur, Georgia, United States of America

Patrick J. Lammie

Affiliation Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Rebecca M. Flueckiger

Affiliation Neglected Tropical Diseases Support Center, Task Force for Global Health, Decatur, Georgia, United States of America

Upendo J. Mwingira

Affiliation Neglected Tropical Diseases Control Programme, National institute for Medical Research, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Rahmah Noordin

Affiliation Institute for Research in Molecular Medicine, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia

Irene Offei Owusu

Affiliation Epidemiology Department, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Legon, Ghana

Eric A. Ottesen

Affiliation Neglected Tropical Diseases Support Center, Task Force for Global Health, Decatur, Georgia, United States of America

Alexandre Pavluck

Affiliation Neglected Tropical Diseases Support Center, Task Force for Global Health, Decatur, Georgia, United States of America

Nils Pilotte

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ramakrishna U. Rao

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Dilhani Samarasekera

Affiliation Anti Filariasis Campaign, Ministry of Health, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Mark A. Schmaedick

Affiliation Division of Community and Natural Resources, American Samoa Community College, Pago Pago, American Samoa

Sunil Settinayake

Affiliation Anti Filariasis Campaign, Ministry of Health, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Paul E. Simonsen

Affiliation Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Taniawati Supali

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia

Fasihah Taleo

Affiliation Neglected Tropical Diseases Unit, Public Health Directorate, Port Vila, Vanuatu

Melissa Torres

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gary J. Weil

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Division, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Kimberly Y. Won

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.