About the Authors

Rebecca Wardell

Affiliation Department of Global Health, Research School of Population Health, College of Medicine, Biology and the Environment, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Archie C. A. Clements

Affiliation Department of Global Health, Research School of Population Health, College of Medicine, Biology and the Environment, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Aparna Lal

Affiliation National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Research School of Population Health, College of Medicine, Biology and the Environment, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia

David Summers

Affiliation Fenner School of Environment and Society, College of Medicine, Biology and the Environment, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Stacey Llewellyn

Affiliation Clinical Tropical Medicine Laboratory, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Herston, Queensland, Australia

Suzy J. Campbell

Affiliation Department of Global Health, Research School of Population Health, College of Medicine, Biology and the Environment, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia

James McCarthy

Affiliations Clinical Tropical Medicine Laboratory, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Herston, Queensland, Australia, School of Public Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Darren J. Gray

Affiliations Department of Global Health, Research School of Population Health, College of Medicine, Biology and the Environment, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, School of Public Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, Molecular Parasitology Laboratory, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia

Susana V. Nery

susana.nery@anu.edu.au

Affiliation Department of Global Health, Research School of Population Health, College of Medicine, Biology and the Environment, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SVN ACAC. Performed the experiments: SL JM. Analyzed the data: RW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JM ACAC AL DS. Wrote the paper: RW SVN ACAC AL DS SL SJC JM DJG. Performed the GIS analysis: RW AL DS. Responsible for data collection and entry: SVN. Conducted data cleaning and management: SVN SJC.