About the Authors

Housseini Dolo

Contributed equally to this work with: Housseini Dolo, Michel Emmanuel Coulibaly

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Neglected Tropical Diseases Research Unit, Faculty of Medicine and OdontoStomatology, USTTB, Bamako, Mali, Onchocerciasis Control Programme, National Health and Public Hygiene, Bamako, Mali

Michel Emmanuel Coulibaly

Contributed equally to this work with: Housseini Dolo, Michel Emmanuel Coulibaly

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Neglected Tropical Diseases Research Unit, Faculty of Medicine and OdontoStomatology, USTTB, Bamako, Mali

Moussa Sow

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation Onchocerciasis Control Programme, National Health and Public Hygiene, Bamako, Mali

Yaya Ibrahim Coulibaly

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Neglected Tropical Diseases Research Unit, Faculty of Medicine and OdontoStomatology, USTTB, Bamako, Mali

Mama Doumbia

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Helen Keller International, Bamako, Mali and Dakar, Senegal

Moussa Sangare

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Neglected Tropical Diseases Research Unit, Faculty of Medicine and OdontoStomatology, USTTB, Bamako, Mali

Abdoul Sanogo

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Onchocerciasis Control Programme, National Health and Public Hygiene, Bamako, Mali

Benoit Dembele

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Helen Keller International, Bamako, Mali and Dakar, Senegal

Boubacar Guindo

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources

Affiliation Helen Keller International, Bamako, Mali and Dakar, Senegal

Mamadou Coulibaly

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources

Affiliation SightSavers International, Mali Country Office, Bamako, Mali, and UK Office, Haywards Heath, England, United Kingdom

Modibo Keita

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources

Affiliation Helen Keller International, Bamako, Mali and Dakar, Senegal

Lamine Soumaoro

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Neglected Tropical Diseases Research Unit, Faculty of Medicine and OdontoStomatology, USTTB, Bamako, Mali

Dansine Diarra

Roles Data curation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of History and Geography, University of Social Sciences and Management of Bamako, Bamako, Mali

Boubacar Dicko

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration

Affiliation SightSavers International, Mali Country Office, Bamako, Mali, and UK Office, Haywards Heath, England, United Kingdom

Louise Hamill

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation SightSavers International, Mali Country Office, Bamako, Mali, and UK Office, Haywards Heath, England, United Kingdom

Seydou Doumbia

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and OdontoStomatology, USTTB, Bamako, Mali

Hamadoun Sangho

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Neglected Tropical Diseases Research Unit, Faculty of Medicine and OdontoStomatology, USTTB, Bamako, Mali

Yacouba Sangare

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Onchocerciasis Control Programme, National Health and Public Hygiene, Bamako, Mali

Yaobi Zhang

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Helen Keller International, New York, New York State, United States of America

Jamie Tallant

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The END Fund, Neglected Tropical Diseases, New York, New York State, United States of America

Alpha Seydou Yaro

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Technical Sciences of Mali, USTTB, Bamako, Mali

Charles Mackenzie

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

tropmed@mac.com, cmackenzie@endfund.org

Affiliations The END Fund, Neglected Tropical Diseases, New York, New York State, United States of America, COR-NTD, Task Force for Global Health, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Thomas B. Nutman

Roles Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Daniel Boakye

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations The END Fund, Neglected Tropical Diseases, New York, New York State, United States of America, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana

Competing Interests

No competing interests