About the Authors

Yves T. Barogui

Affiliations Programme National de Lutte Contre la Lèpre et l'Ulcère de Buruli, Ministère de la Santé, Cotonou, Bénin, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases, Groningen, The Netherlands

Sandor Klis

Affiliation University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases, Groningen, The Netherlands

Honoré Sourou Bankolé

Affiliation Département de Génie de Biologie Humaine, Ecole polytechnique de l'Université d'Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Bénin

Ghislain E. Sopoh

Affiliation Programme National de Lutte Contre la Lèpre et l'Ulcère de Buruli, Ministère de la Santé, Cotonou, Bénin

Solomon Mamo

Affiliation Agogo Presbyterian Hospital, Department of Surgery, Agogo, Ghana

Lamine Baba-Moussa

Affiliation Laboratoire de biologie et de typage moléculaire en microbiologie, département de biochimie et biologie cellulaire, Faculté des sciences et techniques, Université d'Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Bénin

Willem L. Manson

Affiliation University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Medical Microbiology, Groningen, The Netherlands

Roch Christian Johnson

Affiliation Fondation Raoul Follereau, Cotonou, Bénin

Tjip S. van der Werf

Affiliation University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases, Groningen, The Netherlands

Ymkje Stienstra

y.stienstra@umcg.nl

Affiliation University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases, Groningen, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YTB SK GES WLM RCJ TSW YS. Performed the experiments: YTB HSB GES SM LBM. Analyzed the data: YTB SK WLM YS. Wrote the paper: YTB HSB GES SM LBM SK GES WLM RCJ TSW YS.