About the Authors

Catherine Sikorski

Affiliation University College London Medical School, London, United Kingdom

Meskele Ashine

Affiliation Mossy Foot Treatment and Prevention Association, Wolaita Sodo, Ethiopia

Zewdie Zeleke

Affiliation Mossy Foot Treatment and Prevention Association, Wolaita Sodo, Ethiopia

Gail Davey

gailinaddis@hotmail.com

Affiliation School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Competing Interests

MA and ZZ are employed by the Mossy Foot Treatment and Prevention Association to deliver treatment and care to patients with podoconiosis. This may result in bias toward finding the treatment regimen described to be effective.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MA GD. Performed the experiments: CS MA ZZ. Analyzed the data: CS GD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MA ZZ. Wrote the paper: CS GD.