About the Authors

Antonio Montresor

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

montresora@who.int

Affiliation Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Denise Mupfasoni

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Alexei Mikhailov

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Software

Affiliation Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Pauline Mwinzi

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Expanded Special Programme for Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Regional Office for Africa, Brazzaville, Congo

Ana Lucianez

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Neglected, Tropical and Vector Borne Diseases, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Americas, Washington, United States of America

Mohamed Jamsheed

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

Affiliation Neglected Tropical Disease Control, World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India

Elkan Gasimov

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

Affiliation Malaria, NTDs and other Vector-Borne Diseases, World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark

Supriya Warusavithana

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Control of Communicable Diseases, World Health Organization, Regional Office for Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt

Aya Yajima

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

Affiliation Malaria, other Vectorborne and Parasitic Diseases, World Health Organization, Regional Office for Western Pacific, Manila, The Philippines

Zeno Bisoffi

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

Affiliation Department of Infectious–Tropical Diseases and Microbiology, IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar, Verona, Italy (WHO Collaborating Centre ITA-102)

Dora Buonfrate

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

Affiliation Department of Infectious–Tropical Diseases and Microbiology, IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar, Verona, Italy (WHO Collaborating Centre ITA-102)

Peter Steinmann

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland (WHO Collaborating Centre SWI-71), University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Jürg Utzinger

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland (WHO Collaborating Centre SWI-71), University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Bruno Levecke

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Department of Virology, Parasitology and Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium (WHO Collaborating Centre BEL-42)

Johnny Vlaminck

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Department of Virology, Parasitology and Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium (WHO Collaborating Centre BEL-42)

Piet Cools

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Department of Virology, Parasitology and Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium (WHO Collaborating Centre BEL-42)

Jozef Vercruysse

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Department of Virology, Parasitology and Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium (WHO Collaborating Centre BEL-42)

Giuseppe Cringoli

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Laboratory of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases, Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Production. University of Naples, Naples, Italy (WHO Collaborating Centre ITA-116)

Laura Rinaldi

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Laboratory of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases, Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Production. University of Naples, Naples, Italy (WHO Collaborating Centre ITA-116)

Brittany Blouin

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (WHO Collaborating Centre CAN-88)

Theresa W. Gyorkos

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (WHO Collaborating Centre CAN-88)

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.