About the Authors

Anita Wadagni

Affiliation Centre de Dépistage et de Traitement de l’Ulcère de Buruli d’Allada, Allada, Bénin

Michael Frimpong

Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana

Delphin Mavinga Phanzu

Affiliation Institut Médical Evangélique de Kimpese, Kimpese, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Anthony Ablordey

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

Emmanuel Kacou

Affiliation Centre de santé Saint michel, Zoukougbeu, Côte d’Ivoire

Mirabelle Gbedevi

Affiliation Centre de Dépistage et de Traitement de l’Ulcère de Buruli d’Allada, Allada, Bénin

Estelle Marion

Affiliation Centre de Diagnostic et de Traitement de l'Ulcère de Buruli de Pobè, Fondation Raoul Follereau, Pobè, Bénin

Yalan Xing

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Vaddela Sudheer Babu

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Richard Odame Phillips

rodamephillips@gmail.com

Affiliations Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana, Department of Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana

Mark Wansbrough-Jones

Affiliation St George's University of London, London, United Kingdom

Yoshito Kishi

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kingsley Asiedu

Affiliation Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KA YK ROP MWJ VSB. Performed the experiments: AW MF DMP AA EK MG EM YX YK. Analyzed the data: ROP KA MWJ MF YK AW MF DMP AA EK MG EM YX YK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YK KA ROP MWJ. Wrote the paper: YK KA ROP MWJ MF.