About the Authors

Saskia I. Johanns

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ SIJ and RGG share first authorship on this work. CK and PTS are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation University Clinics Tübingen, Institute for Tropical Medicine, Eberhard-Karls University, Tübingen, Germany

Richard G. Gantin

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ SIJ and RGG share first authorship on this work. CK and PTS are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Onchocerciasis Reference Laboratory, Institut National d’Hygiene, Centre Hospitalier Regional, Sokode, Togo

Bawoubadi Wangala

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Onchocerciasis Reference Laboratory, Institut National d’Hygiene, Centre Hospitalier Regional, Sokode, Togo

Kossi Komlan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Institut National d’Hygiene, Lomé, Togo

Wemboo A. Halatoko

Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Institut National d’Hygiene, Lomé, Togo

Meba Banla

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Université de Lomé, Lomé, Togo

Potchoziou Karabou

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation National Onchocerciasis Control Programme, Kara, Togo

Adrian JF Luty

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Université de Paris, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Paris, France

Hartwig Schulz-Key

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation University Clinics Tübingen, Institute for Tropical Medicine, Eberhard-Karls University, Tübingen, Germany

Carsten Köhler

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ SIJ and RGG share first authorship on this work. CK and PTS are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation University Clinics Tübingen, Institute for Tropical Medicine, Eberhard-Karls University, Tübingen, Germany

Peter T. Soboslay

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

peter.soboslay@uni-tuebingen.de

‡ SIJ and RGG share first authorship on this work. CK and PTS are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation University Clinics Tübingen, Institute for Tropical Medicine, Eberhard-Karls University, Tübingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.