About the Authors

Anna Katharina Njillo

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Center of Tropical Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine & I. Department of Medicine University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Stephen Adom Boateng

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Leprosy Control Programme, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana

Till Omansen

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

Affiliations Center of Tropical Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine & I. Department of Medicine University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, Department of Virology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Ruth Ansah

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center of Tropical Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine & I. Department of Medicine University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, National Leprosy Control Programme, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana

Johannes Mischlinger

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center of Tropical Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine & I. Department of Medicine University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Michael Ramharter

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center of Tropical Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine & I. Department of Medicine University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hamburg–Lübeck–Borstel–Riems, Germany, Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL), Lambaréné, Gabon

Benedict Okoe Quao

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

Affiliation National Leprosy Control Programme, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana

Mirjam Groger

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

groger@bnitm.de

Affiliations Center of Tropical Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine & I. Department of Medicine University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hamburg–Lübeck–Borstel–Riems, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.