About the Authors

Zeno Bisoffi

zeno.bisoffi@sacrocuore.it

Affiliation Centre for Tropical Diseases, S. Cuore Hospital, Negrar, Verona, Italy

Halidou Tinto

Affiliation Centre Muraz, Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

Bienvenu Sodiomon Sirima

Affiliation Centre National de Recherche et de Formation sur le Paludisme, Ministry of Health, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Federico Gobbi

Affiliation Centre for Tropical Diseases, S. Cuore Hospital, Negrar, Verona, Italy

Andrea Angheben

Affiliation Centre for Tropical Diseases, S. Cuore Hospital, Negrar, Verona, Italy

Dora Buonfrate

Affiliation Centre for Tropical Diseases, S. Cuore Hospital, Negrar, Verona, Italy

Jef Van den Ende

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Critically discussed the study design: HT BSS FG AA DB. Retrieved relevant literature: DB. Substantially improved the first draft: DB JVdE. Substantially contributed to previous published field studies providing baseline data for this research: HT BSS FG AA. Conceived and designed the experiments: ZB JVdE. Performed the experiments: ZB JVdE. Analyzed the data: ZB JVdE. Wrote the paper: ZB HT BSS FG AA DB JVdE.