About the Authors

Klaudia Porten

klaudia.porten@geneva.msf.org

Affiliation Epicentre, Paris, France

Karen Sailor

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland

Eric Comte

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland

Adelaide Njikap

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland

Agnes Sobry

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland

Francois Sihom

Affiliation District de Santé Akonolinga, Akonolinga, Cameroon

Abanda Meva'a

Affiliation District de Santé Akonolinga, Akonolinga, Cameroon

Sarah Eyangoh

Affiliation Centre Pasteur, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Mark Myatt

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Fabienne Nackers

Affiliation Epicentre, Paris, France

Rebecca F. Grais

Affiliation Epicentre, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KP EC. Performed the experiments: KP KS AN AM. Analyzed the data: KP. Wrote the paper: KP. Organized survey in the field: KS. Implementation supervison of the survey: AN. Coordination and organization of the survey: AS. Supervsion of survey teams and organization of community involvement: FS. Supervision of survey teams and data collection: AM. Laboratory diagnosis: SE. Participated in establishing the study design and reviewed the protocol and the manuscript: MM. Technical advice on Buruli ulcer, took part in establishing the protocol, and report of the survey: FN. Supervised and participated in conception of survey, protocol writing, analysis, and writing of manuscript: RFG.