About the Authors

Kobina Assan Ampah

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Molecular Immunology, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Beatrice Nickel

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Molecular Immunology, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Prince Asare

Affiliation Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Amanda Ross

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Molecular Immunology, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Daniel De-Graft

Affiliation Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Sarah Kerber

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Molecular Immunology, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Ralf Spallek

Affiliation LIONEX Diagnostics & Therapeutics, Braunschweig, Germany

Mahavir Singh

Affiliation LIONEX Diagnostics & Therapeutics, Braunschweig, Germany

Gerd Pluschke

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Molecular Immunology, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Dorothy Yeboah-Manu

Affiliation Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Katharina Röltgen

Katharina.roeltgen@unibas.ch

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Molecular Immunology, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Competing Interests

RS and MS are employed by a commercial company, LIONEX. This does not alter our adherence to all PLOS NTDs policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KAA BN AR GP DY KR. Performed the experiments: KAA PA DD KR. Analyzed the data: KAA AR SK KR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RS MS. Wrote the paper: KAA BN GP KR.