Author Details Assessment of biosand filter performance in rural communities in southern coastal Nicaragua: an evaluation of 199 households Madeline Fiore1 International Institute Fellow, lfiore@umich.edu Kailey Minnings2 BA, Undergraduate student, kailey.minnings@gmail.com Louis Fiore3 MD, Associate professor , lfiore@bu.edu 1 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. 2 Undergraduate student, Nicaragua. 3 Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Correspondence: L Fiore, 150 Tremont Street, Newton, MA 02458, USA  Author contribution: Madeline M Fiore: original concept, designed the project, supervised data collection, devised survey tool. Kailey Minnings: input data, collected data. Louis D Fiore: wrote the first draft, literature review, statistical analysis. Citation: Fiore MM, Minnings K, Fiore LD.  Assessment of biosand filter performance in rural communities in southern coastal Nicaragua: an evaluation of 199 households. Rural and Remote Health 10: 1483. (Online) 2010. Available: http://www.rrh.org.au Received: 29 March 2010 Revised: 7 June 2010 Accepted: 24 August 2010