About the Authors

Marie-Thérèse Ruf

Contributed equally to this work with: Marie-Thérèse Ruf, Ghislain Emmanuel Sopoh

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Ghislain Emmanuel Sopoh

Contributed equally to this work with: Marie-Thérèse Ruf, Ghislain Emmanuel Sopoh

Affiliation Centre de Depistage et de Traitement de l'Ulcere de Buruli d'Allada, Allada, Benin

Luc Valère Brun

Affiliation Laboratoire d'Anatomie et Cytologie Pathologiques, Université de Parakou, Parakou, Benin

Ange Dodji Dossou

Affiliation Centre de Depistage et de Traitement de l'Ulcere de Buruli d'Allada, Allada, Benin

Yves Thierry Barogui

Affiliation Centre de Depistage et de Traitement de l'Ulcere de Buruli de Lalo, Lalo, Benin

Roch Christian Johnson

Affiliation Fondation Raoul Follereau, Cotonou, Bénin

Gerd Pluschke

gerd.pluschke@unibas.ch

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: M-TR GES RCJ GP. Performed the experiments: M-TR GES. Analyzed the data: M-TR GES RCJ GP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GES LVB ADD YTB. Wrote the paper: M-TR GES GP.