About the Authors

Camila González Beiras

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

cgonzalez@flsida.org

Affiliations Skin Neglected Tropical Diseases and Sexually Transmitted Infections section, Fight Infectious Diseases Foundation, Hospital Universitari Germans Trías i Pujol; Badalona, Spain, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain

Adingra Tano Kouadio

Contributed equally to this work with: Adingra Tano Kouadio, Becca Louise Handley

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institut Pasteur de Côte d'Ivoire, Abidjan, Lagunes, Côte d’Ivoire

Becca Louise Handley

Contributed equally to this work with: Adingra Tano Kouadio, Becca Louise Handley

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinical Research Department, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Daniel Arhinful

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

Affiliation Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Serges Tchatchouang

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre Pasteur du Cameroun, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Ahouansou Stanislas Sonagnon Houndji

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institut Pasteur de Côte d'Ivoire, Abidjan, Lagunes, Côte d’Ivoire

Eric Tettey Nartey

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Dolphine Osei Sarpong

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Gely Menguena

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Centre Pasteur du Cameroun, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Philippe Ndzomo

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre Pasteur du Cameroun, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Laud Anthony Basing

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Kouadio Aboh Hugues

Roles Supervision

Affiliations Institut Pasteur de Côte d'Ivoire, Abidjan, Lagunes, Côte d’Ivoire, National Program of African Trypanosomiasis Elimination, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

Ivy Brago Amanor

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Mohammed Bakheit

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Mast Diagnostica GmbH, Reinfeld, Germany

Emelie Landmann

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Mast Diagnostica GmbH, Reinfeld, Germany

Patrick Awondo

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre Pasteur du Cameroun, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Claudia Müller

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of International Animal Health/One Health, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Greifswald - Insel Riems, Germany

Tania Crucitti

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Experimental Bacteriology Unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar

Nadine Borst

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory for MEMS Applications, Department of Microsystems Engineering - IMTEK, University of Freiburg, Freiburg , Germany

Lisa Becherer

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory for MEMS Applications, Department of Microsystems Engineering - IMTEK, University of Freiburg, Freiburg , Germany

Simone Lüert

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of International Animal Health/One Health, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Greifswald - Insel Riems, Germany

Sieghard Frischmann

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Mast Diagnostica GmbH, Reinfeld, Germany

Aboubacar Sylla

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institut Pasteur de Côte d'Ivoire, Abidjan, Lagunes, Côte d’Ivoire

Mireille S. Kouamé-Sina

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institut Pasteur de Côte d'Ivoire, Abidjan, Lagunes, Côte d’Ivoire

Emma Michèle Harding-Esch

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinical Research Department, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Sascha Knauf

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of International Animal Health/One Health, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Greifswald - Insel Riems, Germany, Professorship for One Health/International Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Oriol Mitjà

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

Affiliations Skin Neglected Tropical Diseases and Sexually Transmitted Infections section, Fight Infectious Diseases Foundation, Hospital Universitari Germans Trías i Pujol; Badalona, Spain, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain

Sara Eyangoh

Roles Conceptualization, Visualization

Affiliation Centre Pasteur du Cameroun, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Kennedy Kwasi Addo

Roles Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Solange Ngazoa Kakou

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Institut Pasteur de Côte d'Ivoire, Abidjan, Lagunes, Côte d’Ivoire

Michael Marks

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

Affiliations Clinical Research Department, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.