About the Authors

Ronald Gnimavo

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Centre de Diagnostic et de Traitement de l’ulcère de Buruli, Fondation Raoul Follereau, Pobè, Bénin

Alban Besnard

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Univ Angers, Inserm, INCIT, Angers, France

Horace Degnonvi

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Univ Angers, Inserm, INCIT, Angers, France, Centre Inter Facultaire de Formation et de Recherche en Environnement pour le Développement Durable (CIFRED), Université d’Abomey Calavi (UAC), Cotonou, Benin

Juliana Pipoli Da Fonseca

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Institut Curie Genomics of Excellence (ICGex) Platform, Institut Curie, Paris, France

Marie Kempf

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Univ Angers, Inserm, CHU Angers, INCIT, Angers, France

Christian Roch Johnson

Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Centre Inter Facultaire de Formation et de Recherche en Environnement pour le Développement Durable (CIFRED), Université d’Abomey Calavi (UAC), Cotonou, Benin

Alexandra Boccarossa

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliations Univ Angers, Inserm, INCIT, Angers, France, CNRS, UMR ESO, Université d’Angers, Angers, France

Yao Télesphore Brou

Roles Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation UMR 228 ESPACE-DEV (IRD, UAG, UM, UR), Station SEAS-OI, Saint Pierre, Ile de la Réunion, France

Laurent Marsollier

Contributed equally to this work with: Laurent Marsollier, Estelle Marion

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Univ Angers, Inserm, INCIT, Angers, France

Estelle Marion

Contributed equally to this work with: Laurent Marsollier, Estelle Marion

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Estelle.marion@inserm.fr

Affiliation Univ Angers, Inserm, INCIT, Angers, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.