About the Authors

Mark D. Lim

markdlim@gmail.com

Affiliation Global Health Division, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, United States of America

Simon J. Brooker

Affiliation Global Health Division, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, United States of America

Vicente Y. Belizario Jr.

Affiliation College of Public Health, University of Philippines, Manila, Philippines

Françoise Gay-Andrieu

Affiliation bioMérieux, Marcy l’Etoile, France

John Gilleard

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Bruno Levecke

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Gent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Lisette van Lieshout

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands

Graham F. Medley

Affiliation Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Zeleke Mekonnen

Affiliation Jimma University Institute of Health, Jimma, Ethiopia

Greg Mirams

Affiliation Techion Group Ltd, Dunedin, New Zealand

Sammy M. Njenga

Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

Maurice R. Odiere

Affiliation Centre for Global Health Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya

James W. Rudge

Affiliation Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Lieven Stuyver

Affiliation Janssen Diagnostics, Beerse, Belgium

Jozef Vercruysse

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Gent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Johnny Vlaminck

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Gent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Judd L. Walson

Affiliations Departments of Global Health, Medicine (Infectious Disease), Pediatrics and Epidemiology, University of Washington, United States of America, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

the Annecy STH diagnostic experts group

Membership of the Annecy STH diagnostic experts group is listed in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

Three of the coauthors are employed by commercial companies. Françoise Gay-Andrieu is employed by bioMerieux, Greg Mirams is employed by Techion Group Ltd, and Lieven Stuyver is employed by Janssen Diagnostics. None of these individuals received any form of compensation contributing to this manuscript, nor are any products/patents developed by their affiliated companies described within the manuscript.