About the Authors

Wendy Houinei

Contributed equally to this work with: Wendy Houinei, Charmie Godornes, Sheila A. Lukehart, Oriol Mitjà

Affiliation Disease Control Branch, National Department of Health, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

Charmie Godornes

Contributed equally to this work with: Wendy Houinei, Charmie Godornes, Sheila A. Lukehart, Oriol Mitjà

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

August Kapa

Affiliation Lihir Medical Centre– International SOS, Newcrest Mining, Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea

Sascha Knauf

Affiliation German Primate Center, Leibniz-Institute for Primate Research, Pathology Unit, Working Group Neglected Tropical Diseases, Göttingen, Germany

Eric Q. Mooring

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Camila González-Beiras

Affiliation Global Public Health PhD Programme, Nova University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

Ronald Watup

Affiliation Lihir Medical Centre– International SOS, Newcrest Mining, Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea

Raymond Paru

Affiliation Lihir Medical Centre– International SOS, Newcrest Mining, Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea

Paul Advent

Affiliation Lihir Medical Centre– International SOS, Newcrest Mining, Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea

Sivauk Bieb

Affiliation Disease Control Branch, National Department of Health, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

Sergi Sanz

Affiliation Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Hospital Clinic-University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Quique Bassat

Affiliations Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Hospital Clinic-University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça (CISM), Maputo, Mozambique, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain

Stanley M. Spinola

Affiliation Departments of Microbiology and Immunology, Medicine, and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Sheila A. Lukehart

Contributed equally to this work with: Wendy Houinei, Charmie Godornes, Sheila A. Lukehart, Oriol Mitjà

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Oriol Mitjà

Contributed equally to this work with: Wendy Houinei, Charmie Godornes, Sheila A. Lukehart, Oriol Mitjà

oriol.mitja@isglobal.org

Affiliations Lihir Medical Centre– International SOS, Newcrest Mining, Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea, Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Hospital Clinic-University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Division of Public Health, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

Competing Interests

August Kapa, Ronald Watup, Raymond Paru, Paul Advent and Oriol Mitjà are employed by the Lihir Medical Centre, which is jointly funded by the government of Papua New Guinea and Newcrest Mining. The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SMS SAL OM. Formal analysis: SS OM. Funding acquisition: SAL OM. Investigation: WH CG AK EQM RW RP PA. Methodology: WH CG SMS SAL OM. Resources: CG SAL. Supervision: OM. Writing – original draft: WH SMS SAL OM. Writing – review & editing: EQM CGB SB QB SK.