About the Authors

Janet A. M. Fyfe

Contributed equally to this work with: Janet A. M. Fyfe, Caroline J. Lavender

janet.fyfe@mh.org.au

Affiliations Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, WHO Collaborating Centre for Mycobacterium ulcerans, Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Caroline J. Lavender

Contributed equally to this work with: Janet A. M. Fyfe, Caroline J. Lavender

Affiliations Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, WHO Collaborating Centre for Mycobacterium ulcerans, Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Kathrine A. Handasyde

Affiliation Department of Zoology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Alistair R. Legione

Affiliation Department of Zoology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Carolyn R. O'Brien

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Science, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Timothy P. Stinear

Affiliations WHO Collaborating Centre for Mycobacterium ulcerans, Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Sacha J. Pidot

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Torsten Seemann

Affiliation Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

M. Eric Benbow

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, United States of America

John R. Wallace

Affiliation Department of Biology, Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Christina McCowan

Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Science, The University of Melbourne, Werribee, Victoria, Australia

Paul D. R. Johnson

Affiliations Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, WHO Collaborating Centre for Mycobacterium ulcerans, Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Infectious Diseases Department, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JAMF CJL KAH CRO TPS SJP TS MEB JRW PDRJ. Performed the experiments: JAMF CJL KAH ARL CRO TPS SJP MEB JRW CM. Analyzed the data: JAMF CJL KAH ARL CRO TPS SJP TS MEB JRW PDRJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JAMF KAH CRO TPS TS MEB JRW CM PDRJ. Wrote the paper: JAMF CJL KAH TPS SJP PDRJ.