About the Authors

Valerie A. White

val.white@vch.ca

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Susan Lewallen

Affiliations British Columbia Centre for Epidemiologic and International Ophthalmology, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Kilimanjaro Centre for Community Ophthalmology, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, Tumaini University, Moshi, Tanzania

Nicholas A. V. Beare

Affiliation St. Paul's Eye Unit, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Malcolm E. Molyneux

Affiliations Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi, School of Tropical Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Terrie E. Taylor

Affiliations Blantyre Malaria Project, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VAW SL NAVB MEM TET. Performed the experiments: VAW SL NAVB MEM TET. Analyzed the data: VAW SL TET. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VAW SL TET. Wrote the paper: VAW. Obtained funding: MEM TET.