About the Authors
- Jessica G. Shantha
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: 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
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¶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.