About the Authors

A. K. M. Shamsuzzaman

Contributed equally to this work with: A. K. M. Shamsuzzaman, Rouseli Haq

Affiliation Filariasis Elimination and STH Control Program, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Communicable Disease Control, Directorate General of Health Services, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Rouseli Haq

Contributed equally to this work with: A. K. M. Shamsuzzaman, Rouseli Haq

Affiliation Filariasis Elimination and STH Control Program, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Communicable Disease Control, Directorate General of Health Services, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Mohammad J. Karim

Affiliation Filariasis Elimination and STH Control Program, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Communicable Disease Control, Directorate General of Health Services, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Motasim B. Azad

Affiliation Filariasis Elimination and STH Control Program, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Communicable Disease Control, Directorate General of Health Services, Dhaka, Bangladesh

A. S. M. Sultan Mahmood

Affiliation Filariasis Elimination and STH Control Program, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Communicable Disease Control, Directorate General of Health Services, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Abul Khair

Affiliation Filariasis Elimination and STH Control Program, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Communicable Disease Control, Directorate General of Health Services, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Muhammad Mujibur Rahman

Affiliation Filariasis Elimination and STH Control Program, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Communicable Disease Control, Directorate General of Health Services, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Israt Hafiz

Affiliation Filariasis Elimination and STH Control Program, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Communicable Disease Control, Directorate General of Health Services, Dhaka, Bangladesh

K. D. Ramaiah

Affiliation Consultant on Lymphatic Filariasis, Tagore Nagar, Pondicherry, India

Charles D. Mackenzie

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Department of Pathobiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Hayley E. Mableson

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Louise A. Kelly-Hope

Louise.Kelly-Hope@LSTMed.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RH IH KDR LAKH. Data curation: RH MJK MBA ASMSM IH. Formal analysis: RH ASMSM IH CDM HEM LAKH. Investigation: RH ASMSM IH AK MMR HEM LAKH. Supervision: AKMS RH MJK MBA. Visualization: LAKH HEM. Writing – original draft: LAKH RH IH KDR AKMS. Writing – review & editing: LAKH RH IH KDR AKMS MJK MBA ASMSM AK MMR IH CDM HEM.