About the Authors

Jessica G. Shantha

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Emory Eye Center, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Ian Crozier

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

Affiliation National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Colleen S. Kraft

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

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University Serious Communicable Disease Unit, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Donald G. Grant

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kenema Government Hospital Lassa Hemorrhagic Fever Laboratory, Kenema, Sierra Leone

Augustine Goba

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kenema Government Hospital Lassa Hemorrhagic Fever Laboratory, Kenema, Sierra Leone

Brent R. Hayek

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

Affiliation Emory Eye Center, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Caleb Hartley

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Emory Eye Center, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Kayla G. Barnes

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

Affiliation Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Timothy M. Uyeki

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

Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

John Schieffelin

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Robert F. Garry

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Daniel G. Bausch

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation United Kingdom Public Health Rapid Support Team (UK-PHRST), London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Public Health England, London, United Kingdom

Paul E. Farmer

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

Affiliation Partners in Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

John G. Mattia

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

Affiliation Lowell and Ruth Gess Eye Hospital, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Matthew J. Vandy

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministry of Health and Sanitation, National Eye Programme, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Steven Yeh

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

steven.yeh@emory.edu, syeh@unmc.edu

Affiliations Emory Eye Center, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Emory Global Health Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Truhlsen Eye Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

EVICT Study Investigators

Full EVICT Study roster available in Acknowledgements section (Supplementary File for additional details)

Competing Interests

Bayer and Santen provided research award funding and grant funding, respectively with no competing relationships related to employment, consultancy, patents, products in development, and marketed products. In addition, we confirm that these grants and research award funding do not alter our adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.