About the Authors

Simone Toppino

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

simone.toppino90@gmail.com

Affiliation Division Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Raymond T. A. S. N’Krumah

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d’Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, Université Peleforo Gon Coulibaly de Korhogo, Korhogo, Côte d’Ivoire

Bognan Valentin Kone

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d’Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

Didier Yao Koffi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d’Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny d’Abidjan, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, Programme National de Lutte contre l’Ulcère de Buruli, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

Ismaël Dognimin Coulibaly

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d’Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, Université Peleforo Gon Coulibaly de Korhogo, Korhogo, Côte d’Ivoire

Frank Tobian

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Software

Affiliation Division Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Gerd Pluschke

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

Affiliations Molecular Immunology Unit, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Marija Stojkovic

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

Affiliation Division Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Bassirou Bonfoh

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny d’Abidjan, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

Thomas Junghanss

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.