About the Authors
- Marcus Beissner
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* E-mail: beissner@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine (DITM), University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
- Nathalie Arens
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Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine (DITM), University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
- Franz Wiedemann
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Affiliation German Leprosy and Tuberculosis Relief Association, Togo Office (DAHW-T), Lomé, Togo
- Ebekalisaï Piten
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Affiliation Centre Hospitalier Régional Maritime, Tsévié (CHR-Tsévié), Togo
- Basile Kobara
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Affiliation Programme National de lutte contre l'Ulcère de Buruli, la Lèpre et le Pian (PNLUB-LP), Lomé, Togo
- Malkin Bauer
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Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine (DITM), University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
- Karl-Heinz Herbinger
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Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine (DITM), University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
- Kossi Badziklou
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Affiliation Institut National d’Hygiène (INH), Ministère de la Santé, Lomé, Togo
- Abiba Banla Kere
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Affiliation Institut National d’Hygiène (INH), Ministère de la Santé, Lomé, Togo
- Thomas Löscher
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Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine (DITM), University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
- Jörg Nitschke
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Affiliation German Leprosy and Tuberculosis Relief Association, Togo Office (DAHW-T), Lomé, Togo
- Gisela Bretzel
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Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine (DITM), University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MBe NA FW JN GB. Performed the experiments: MBe NA EP BK KB ABK. Analyzed the data: MBe NA FW BK MBa KHH TL JN GB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FW KHH KB ABK TL GB. Wrote the paper: MBe MBa TL JN GB. Recruitment and patient management: NA FW EP BK JN. Laboratory analyses: MBe KB ABK GB. Critical revisions of manuscript: MBe KHH TL GB.