About the Authors

François Drabo

Affiliation Programme National de Lutte contre les Maladies Tropicales Négligées, Direction de la Lutte contre la Maladies, Ministère de la Santé, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Hamado Ouedraogo

Affiliation Programme National de Lutte contre les Maladies Tropicales Négligées, Direction de la Lutte contre la Maladies, Ministère de la Santé, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Roland Bougma

Affiliation Programme National de Lutte contre les Maladies Tropicales Négligées, Direction de la Lutte contre la Maladies, Ministère de la Santé, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Clarisse Bougouma

Affiliation Programme National de Lutte contre les Maladies Tropicales Négligées, Direction de la Lutte contre la Maladies, Ministère de la Santé, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Issouf Bamba

Affiliation Helen Keller International, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Dramane Zongo

Affiliation Health Sciences Research Institute (IRSS), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Mohamed Bagayan

Affiliations Health Sciences Research Institute (IRSS), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, University of Ouagadougou, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Laura Barrett

Affiliation Helen Keller International, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Fanny Yago-Wienne

Affiliation Helen Keller International, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Stephanie Palmer

Affiliation Helen Keller International, New York, New York, United States of America

Brian Chu

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

Emily Toubali

Affiliation Helen Keller International, New York, New York, United States of America

Yaobi Zhang

yzhang@hki.org

Affiliation Helen Keller International, Regional Office for Africa, Dakar, Senegal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FD HO RB FYW BC ET YZ. Performed the experiments: HO RB CB IB DZ MB. Analyzed the data: YZ HO RB. Wrote the paper: YZ FD HO RB CB IB DZ MB FYW BC. Managed the program: FD HO RB CB IB LB FYW SP ET.