About the Authors

José C. Sousa-Figueiredo

j.figueiredo@nhm.ac.uk

Affiliation Wolfson Wellcome Biomedical Laboratories, Department of Zoology, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

María-Gloria Basáñez

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

I. Simba Khamis

Affiliation Helminth Control Laboratory Unguja, Helminth Control Programme, Zanzibar, Tanzania

Amadou Garba

Affiliation Réseau International Schistosomoses Environnement Amenagements et Lutte (RISEAL-Niger), Niamey, Niger

David Rollinson

Affiliation Wolfson Wellcome Biomedical Laboratories, Department of Zoology, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

J. Russell Stothard

Affiliation Wolfson Wellcome Biomedical Laboratories, Department of Zoology, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ISK AG DR JRS. Performed the experiments: AG JRS. Analyzed the data: JCSF MGB. Wrote the paper: JCSF MGB DR JRS.