About the Authors

Hermann Feldmeier

hermann.feldmeier@charite.de

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Hygiene, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Jorg Heukelbach

Affiliation Department of Community Health, School of Medicine, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil

Uade Samuel Ugbomoiko

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Ilorin, Kwara State, Illorin, Nigeria

Elizabeth Sentongo

Affiliation Makerere University College of Health Sciences, School of Biomedical Sciences, Department of Medical Microbiology, Kampala, Uganda

Pamela Mbabazi

Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Georg von Samson-Himmelstjerna

Affiliation Institute for Parasitology and Tropical Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany

Ingela Krantz

Affiliation Skaraborg Institute for Research and Development, Skövde, Sweden

The International Expert Group for Tungiasis

Membership of The International Expert Group for Tungiasis is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.