About the Authors

Antonella Santona

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

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

Najwa A. Mhmoud

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Mycetoma Research Centre, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan, Faculty of Medical Laboratory Sciences, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan

Emmanuel Edwar Siddig

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Mycetoma Research Centre, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan, Faculty of Medical Laboratory Sciences, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan

Massimo Deligios

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

Maura Fiamma

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

Bianca Paglietti

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

Sahar Mubarak Bakhiet

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Mycetoma Research Centre, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan, Institute for Endemic Diseases, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan

Salvatore Rubino

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

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

Ahmed Hassan Fahal

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

ahfahal@hotmail.com, ahfahal@mycetoma.edu.sd

Affiliation Mycetoma Research Centre, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.