About the Authors

Antonio Montresor

montresora@who.int

Affiliation Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Arminder Deol

Affiliation Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Natacha à Porta

Affiliation Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Nam Lethanh

Affiliation Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland

Dina Jankovic

Affiliation Centre for Health Economics, University of York, York, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM AD NL. Performed the experiments: AM NàP. Analyzed the data: AM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NL. Wrote the paper: AM AD NàP NL DJ. Designed the software used in analysis: NL. Reviewed all mathematical formulas: DJ.