About the Authors

Gisele Andrade

Affiliation Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

David J. Bertsch

Affiliations Center for Global Health and Diseases, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Andrea Gazzinelli

Affiliations Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia em Doenças Tropicais (INCT-DT), Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

Charles H. King

chk@cwru.edu

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: GA DJB AG CHK. Data curation: GA DJB. Formal analysis: GA CHK. Funding acquisition: GA AG. Investigation: GA DJB CHK. Methodology: GA DJB CHK. Project administration: AG CHK. Resources: GA AG CHK. Software: GA CHK. Supervision: AG CHK. Validation: GA DJB CHK. Visualization: GA CHK. Writing – original draft: GA DJB. Writing – review & editing: GA DJB AG CHK.