About the Authors

Sacha J. Pidot

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Jessica L. Porter

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Laurent Marsollier

Affiliation Groupe d'Étude des Interactions Hôte-Pathogène, Université d'Angers, Angers, France

Annick Chauty

Affiliation Centre de Dépistage et de Traitement de l'ulcère de Buruli, Pobè, Benin

Florence Migot-Nabias

Affiliations Institut de Recherche pour le Développement UMR216, Mère et enfant face aux infections tropicales, Paris, France, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France

Cyril Badaut

Affiliations Institut de Recherche pour le Développement UMR216, Mère et enfant face aux infections tropicales, Paris, France, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France

Angèle Bénard

Affiliation Swiss Tropical Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland

Marie-Therese Ruf

Affiliation Swiss Tropical Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland

Torsten Seemann

Affiliation Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Paul D. R. Johnson

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia

John K. Davies

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Grant A. Jenkin

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Gerd Pluschke

Affiliation Swiss Tropical Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland

Timothy P. Stinear

tstinear@unimelb.edu.au

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SJP JKD GP TPS. Performed the experiments: SJP JLP LM AB MTR. Analyzed the data: SJP LM AB MTR TS PDRJ GAJ GP TPS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SJP JLP LM AC FMN CB AB MTR TS PDRJ GAJ GP. Wrote the paper: SJP AB GAJ TPS.