About the Authors

Sören L. Becker

Contributed equally to this work with: Sören L. Becker, Peiling Yap

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Saarland University, Homburg/Saar, Germany

Peiling Yap

Contributed equally to this work with: Sören L. Becker, Peiling Yap

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Ninon S. Horié

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

Emilie Alirol

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

Barbara Barbé

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Nisha K. Bhatta

Affiliation Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, B P Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

Narayan R. Bhattarai

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, B P Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

Emmanuel Bottieau

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Justin K. Chatigre

Affiliation Hôpital Mêthodiste de Dabou, Dabou, Côte d’Ivoire

Jean T. Coulibaly

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Unité de Formation et de Recherche Biosciences, Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, Département Environnement et Santé, Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d’Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

Hassan K. M. Fofana

Affiliation Institut National de Recherche en Santé Publique, Bamako, Mali

Jan Jacobs

Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Prahlad Karki

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, B P Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

Basudha Khanal

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, B P Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

Stefanie Knopp

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Wolfson Wellcome Biomedical Laboratories, Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

Kanika Koirala

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, B P Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

Yodi Mahendradhata

Affiliation Centre for Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Pascal Mertens

Affiliation Coris BioConcept, Gembloux, Belgium

Fransiska Meyanti

Affiliation Centre for Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Elsa H. Murhandarwati

Affiliation Centre for Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Eliézer K. N’Goran

Affiliations Unité de Formation et de Recherche Biosciences, Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, Département Environnement et Santé, Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d’Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

Rosanna W. Peeling

Affiliation London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Bickram Pradhan

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, B P Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

Raffaella Ravinetto

Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Suman Rijal

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, B P Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

Moussa Sacko

Affiliation Institut National de Recherche en Santé Publique, Bamako, Mali

Rénion Saye

Affiliation Institut National de Recherche en Santé Publique, Bamako, Mali

Pierre H. H. Schneeberger

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Department of Epidemiology and Molecular Diagnostics, Agroscope Changins Wädenswil, Wädenswil, Switzerland, Department of Virology, Spiez Laboratory, Federal Office for Civil Protection, Spiez, Switzerland

Céline Schurmans

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Kigbafori D. Silué

Affiliations Unité de Formation et de Recherche Biosciences, Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, Département Environnement et Santé, Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d’Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

Peter Steinmann

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Harry van Loen

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Kristien Verdonck

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Lisette van Lieshout

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

Lutz von Müller

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Saarland University, Homburg/Saar, Germany

Joel A. Yao

Affiliations Unité de Formation et de Recherche Biosciences, Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, Département Environnement et Santé, Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d’Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

Marleen Boelaert

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

François Chappuis

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

Katja Polman

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Jürg Utzinger

juerg.utzinger@unibas.ch

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.