About the Authors

Laurence Toutous Trellu

laurence.trellu@hcuge.ch

Affiliation Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland

Patrick Nkemenang

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland

Eric Comte

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland

Geneviève Ehounou

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland

Paul Atangana

Affiliation Centre Pasteur Cameroon, Yaounde, Cameroon

Didier Junior Mboua

† Deceased.

Affiliation Yaounde Central Hospital, Yaounde, Cameroon

Barbara Rusch

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland

Earnest Njih Tabah

Affiliation National Yaws, Leishmaniasis, Leprosy and Buruli ulcer Control Program against, Ministry of Public Health, Yaounde, Cameroon

Jean-François Etard

Affiliations Epicentre, Paris, France, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) UMI 233 –INSERM U 1175 – Montpellier University, Montpellier, France

Yolanda K. Mueller

Affiliation Epicentre, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YKM JFE LTT EC. Performed the experiments: PN DJM GE LTT YKM PA. Analyzed the data: YKM JFE LTT EC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PN DJM GE BR YKM JFE. Wrote the paper: LTT YKM JFE EC BR ENT GE.