About the Authors

Andrew K. Watson

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew K. Watson, Sahar Bakhiet, Emmanuel E. Siddig

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

Affiliation Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology, Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Sahar Bakhiet

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew K. Watson, Sahar Bakhiet, Emmanuel E. Siddig

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

Affiliations ErasmusMC, Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Mycetoma Research Centre, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan, The Institute of Endemic Diseases, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan

Emmanuel E. Siddig

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew K. Watson, Sahar Bakhiet, Emmanuel E. Siddig

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

Affiliations ErasmusMC, Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Mycetoma Research Centre, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan, Faculty of Medical laboratory Sciences, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan

Carole Pab Minlekib

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

Affiliation Centre de Recherche sur les maladies Tropicales Négligées, UFR Sciences de la Santé, Université Gaston Berger, Saint-Louis, Senegal

Rihab Mohammed

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations ErasmusMC, Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Mycetoma Research Centre, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan, Department of medical microbiology and parasitology, faculty of Medical Laboratory sciences, University of Dongola, Dongola, Sudan

Willemien Zandijk

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ErasmusMC, Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Mickey Konings

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ErasmusMC, Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Ahmed H. Fahal

Roles Resources

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

Maguette Faye

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre de Recherche sur les maladies Tropicales Négligées, UFR Sciences de la Santé, Université Gaston Berger, Saint-Louis, Senegal

Katarzyna Mickiewicz

Roles Resources

Affiliation Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology, Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Fatehmeh Mazraati Tajabadi

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sydney Institute for Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Doudou Sow

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre de Recherche sur les maladies Tropicales Négligées, UFR Sciences de la Santé, Université Gaston Berger, Saint-Louis, Senegal

Jeffrey Errington

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Mycetoma Research Centre, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan, Sydney Institute for Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Wendy W. J. van de Sande

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

w.vandesande@erasmusmc.nl

Affiliation ErasmusMC, Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.