About the Authors

Miriam Eddyani

meddyani@itg.be

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Koen Vandelannoote

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Conor J. Meehan

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Sabin Bhuju

Affiliation Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, GMAK, Braunschweig, Germany

Jessica L. Porter

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Julia Aguiar

Affiliation Centre de Dépistage et de Traitement de l’Ulcère de Buruli Gbemotin, Zagnanado, Benin

Torsten Seemann

Affiliation Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Michael Jarek

Affiliation Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, GMAK, Braunschweig, Germany

Mahavir Singh

Affiliation Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, GMAK, Braunschweig, Germany

Françoise Portaels

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Timothy P. Stinear

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Bouke C. de Jong

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ME FP BCdJ. Performed the experiments: ME SB JLP. Analyzed the data: ME KV CJM SB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JA MJ MS. Wrote the paper: ME KV CJM TS TPS BCdJ.