About the Authors

Allison Golden

algolden@path.org

Affiliation Diagnostics Global Program, PATH, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Eric J. Stevens

Affiliation Diagnostics Global Program, PATH, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Lindsay Yokobe

Affiliation Diagnostics Global Program, PATH, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Dunia Faulx

Affiliation Diagnostics Global Program, PATH, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Michael Kalnoky

Affiliation Diagnostics Global Program, PATH, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Roger Peck

Affiliation Diagnostics Global Program, PATH, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Melissa Valdez

Affiliation Diagnostics Global Program, PATH, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Cathy Steel

Affiliation Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Potochoziou Karabou

Affiliation National Onchocerciasis Control Programme, Kara, Togo

Méba Banla

Affiliation Onchocerciasis Reference Laboratory, National Institute of Hygiene, Sokodé, Togo

Peter T. Soboslay

Affiliations Onchocerciasis Reference Laboratory, National Institute of Hygiene, Sokodé, Togo, Institute of Tropical Medicine, University Clinics of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Kangi Adade

Affiliation National Onchocerciasis Control Programme, Kara, Togo

Afework H. Tekle

Affiliation African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control, World Health Organization, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Vitaliano A. Cama

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

Peter U. Fischer

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

Thomas B. Nutman

Affiliation Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Thomas R. Unnasch

Affiliation Global Health Infectious Disease Research Program, Department of Global Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Tala de los Santos

Affiliation Diagnostics Global Program, PATH, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Gonzalo J. Domingo

Affiliation Diagnostics Global Program, PATH, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AG GJD DF RP MV. Performed the experiments: AG EJS LY CS MB PTS KA AHT VAC. Analyzed the data: AG EJS LY MK GJD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PK PTS AHT VAC PUF TBN TRU TdlS. Wrote the paper: AG EJS LY DF MK CS PUF VAC TRU TdlS GJD.