About the Authors

Rie Roselyne Yotsu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

yotsurie@hotmail.com, rieyotsu@hosp.ncgm.go.jp

Affiliations Department of Dermatology, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Dermatology, National Suruga Sanatorium, Shizuoka, Japan

Kouamé Kouadio

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation Eco Epidemiology Unit, Pasteur Institute Côte d’Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

Bamba Vagamon

Roles Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation Raoul Follereau Institute Côte d’Ivoire, Adzopé, Côte d’Ivoire

Konan N’guessan

Roles Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation MAP International West Africa, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

Amari Jules Akpa

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation MAP International West Africa, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

Aubin Yao

Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation MAP International West Africa, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

Julien Aké

Roles Conceptualization, Validation

Current address: Effect Hope, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

Affiliation MAP International West Africa, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

Rigobert Abbet Abbet

Roles Supervision, Validation

Current address: Cabinet of Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

Affiliation National Program for Leprosy Control (PNEL), Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

Barbine Tchamba Agbor Agbor

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Medicine, VA North Texas Healthcare System, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Roger Bedimo

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine, VA North Texas Healthcare System, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Texas Dallas Southwestern, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Norihisa Ishii

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Leprosy Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

L. Claire Fuller

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations International Foundation for Dermatology, Dermatology Department, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Roderick Hay

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Foundation for Dermatology

Oriol Mitjà

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Skin NTD Program, Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Hospital Clinic-University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Henning Drechsler

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine, VA North Texas Healthcare System, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Texas Dallas Southwestern, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Kingsley Asiedu

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Global Buruli Ulcer Initiative, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.