Efficacy and safety of single-dose 40 mg/kg oral praziquantel in the treatment of schistosomiasis in preschool-age versus school-age children: An individual participant data meta-analysis

• Piero L. Olliaro,

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

  Affiliation Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Jean T. Coulibaly,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  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, Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d’Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

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• Amadou Garba,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Christine Halleux,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Jennifer Keiser,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Charles H. King,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Global Health and Diseases, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Francisca Mutapi,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations NIHR Global Health Research Unit Tackling Infections to Benefit Africa (TIBA), Ashworth Laboratories, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Institute of Immunology and Infection Research, Centre for Immunity, Infection and Evolution, School of Biological Sciences, Ashworth Laboratories, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Eliézer K. N’Goran,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Giovanna Raso,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Alexandra U. Scherrer,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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• José Carlos Sousa-Figueiredo,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Wolfson Wellcome Biomedical Laboratories, London, United Kingdom, Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Angola, Hospital Provincial, Bengo, Angola

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• Katarina Stete,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine II, University Medical Center Freiburg, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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• Jürg Utzinger,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Michel T. Vaillant

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

  * E-mail: michel.vaillant@lih.lu

  Affiliation Centre of Competences for Methodology and Statistics, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Strassen, Luxembourg

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4714-8128

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