About the Authors

Michael Marks

Michael.marks@lshtm.ac.uk

Affiliations Clinical Research Department, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, University College London Hospital, London, United Kingdom, Division of Infection & Immunity, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Sundeep Chaitanya Vedithi

Affiliations American Leprosy Missions, Greenville, South Carolina, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Wendy W. J. van de Sande

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Bruno Levecke

Affiliation Department of Translational Physiology, Infectiology and Public Health, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

Anthony W. Solomon

Affiliation Global Neglected Tropical Diseases Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Kingsley Asiedu

Affiliation Global Neglected Tropical Diseases Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Camilla L. Ducker

Affiliation Global Neglected Tropical Diseases Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Patrick Lammie

Affiliation NTD Support Center, Task Force for Global Health, Atlanta, Georgia, United State of America

Daniel Argaw Dagne

Affiliation Global Neglected Tropical Diseases Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Isra Cruz

Affiliation National School of Public Health, CIBERINFEC, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

on behalf of the WHO Diagnostic Technical Advisory Group on Neglected Tropical Diseases

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: AWS, KA and DAD are staff members of, and CLD is a consultant to, the World Health Organization.