About the Authors

Emilie Alirol

ealirol@dndi.org

Current address: Global Antibiotics R&D Partnership (GARDP) at Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), Geneva, Switzerland

Affiliation Division of Tropical and Humanitarian Medicine, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Sanjib Kumar Sharma

Affiliation B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

Anup Ghimire

Affiliation B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

Antoine Poncet

Affiliation Clinical Research Centre, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Christophe Combescure

Affiliation Clinical Research Centre, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Chabilal Thapa

Affiliation Dumkauli Primary Health Care Centre, Nawalparasi, Nepal

Vijaya Prasad Paudel

Affiliation Bharatpur Hospital, Chitwan, Nepal

Kalidas Adhikary

Affiliation Bharatpur Hospital, Chitwan, Nepal

Walter Robert Taylor

Affiliations Division of Tropical and Humanitarian Medicine, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, Mahidol Oxford Research Unit, Bangkok, Thailand

David Warrell

Affiliation Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Ulrich Kuch

Affiliation Institute of Occupational Medicine, Social Medicine and Environmental Medicine, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

François Chappuis

Affiliation Division of Tropical and Humanitarian Medicine, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: EA SKS WRT DW UK FC. Data curation: EA. Formal analysis: AP CC. Funding acquisition: EA FC. Investigation: SKS AG CT VPP KA UK. Methodology: UK. Project administration: EA SKS WRT FC. Resources: SKS AG CT VPP KA UK. Supervision: DW FC SKS. Validation: EA. Visualization: EA AP CC. Writing – original draft: EA. Writing – review & editing: EA SKS AG AP CC CT VPP KA WRT DW UK FC.