About the Authors

Moritoshi Iwagami

Contributed equally to this work with: Moritoshi Iwagami, Sengdeuane Keomalaphet

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

Affiliations SATREPS project (JICA/AMED) for Parasitic Diseases, Vientiane, Lao PDR, Department of Tropical Medicine and Malaria, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine (NCGM), Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Parasitology Laboratory, Institut Pasteur du Laos (IPL), Ministry of Health, Vientiane capital, Lao PDR

Sengdeuane Keomalaphet

Contributed equally to this work with: Moritoshi Iwagami, Sengdeuane Keomalaphet

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations SATREPS project (JICA/AMED) for Parasitic Diseases, Vientiane, Lao PDR, Parasitology Laboratory, Institut Pasteur du Laos (IPL), Ministry of Health, Vientiane capital, Lao PDR, Institut de la Francophone pour la Médecine Tropicale, Vientiane capital, Lao PDR

Phonepadith Khattignavong

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations SATREPS project (JICA/AMED) for Parasitic Diseases, Vientiane, Lao PDR, Parasitology Laboratory, Institut Pasteur du Laos (IPL), Ministry of Health, Vientiane capital, Lao PDR

Pheovaly Soundala

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations SATREPS project (JICA/AMED) for Parasitic Diseases, Vientiane, Lao PDR, Parasitology Laboratory, Institut Pasteur du Laos (IPL), Ministry of Health, Vientiane capital, Lao PDR

Lavy Lorphachan

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations SATREPS project (JICA/AMED) for Parasitic Diseases, Vientiane, Lao PDR, Parasitology Laboratory, Institut Pasteur du Laos (IPL), Ministry of Health, Vientiane capital, Lao PDR

Emilie Matsumoto-Takahashi

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliations SATREPS project (JICA/AMED) for Parasitic Diseases, Vientiane, Lao PDR, Department of Tropical Medicine and Malaria, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine (NCGM), Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Michel Strobel

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

Affiliation Institut de la Francophone pour la Médecine Tropicale, Vientiane capital, Lao PDR

Daniel Reinharz

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

Affiliations Institut de la Francophone pour la Médecine Tropicale, Vientiane capital, Lao PDR, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada

Manisack Phommasansack

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Laboratory Section, Center of Malariology, Parasitology and Entomology (CMPE), Ministry of Health, Vientiane capital, Lao PDR

Bouasy Hongvanthong

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations SATREPS project (JICA/AMED) for Parasitic Diseases, Vientiane, Lao PDR, Center of Malariology, Parasitology and Entomology (CMPE), Ministry of Health, Vientiane capital, Lao PDR

Paul T. Brey

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations SATREPS project (JICA/AMED) for Parasitic Diseases, Vientiane, Lao PDR, Institut Pasteur du Laos (IPL), Ministry of Health, Vientiane capital, Lao PDR

Shigeyuki Kano

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

kano@ri.ncgm.go.jp

Affiliations SATREPS project (JICA/AMED) for Parasitic Diseases, Vientiane, Lao PDR, Department of Tropical Medicine and Malaria, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine (NCGM), Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Parasitology Laboratory, Institut Pasteur du Laos (IPL), Ministry of Health, Vientiane capital, Lao PDR

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.