Ulcerative skin lesions among children in Cameroon: It is not always Yaws

• Jean-Philippe Ndzomo Ngono ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jean-Philippe Ndzomo Ngono, Serges Tchatchouang

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre Pasteur du Cameroun, Yaounde, Cameroon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3757-7340

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• Serges Tchatchouang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jean-Philippe Ndzomo Ngono, Serges Tchatchouang

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre Pasteur du Cameroun, Yaounde, Cameroon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0091-9792

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• Mireille Victorine Noah Tsanga,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre Pasteur du Cameroun, Yaounde, Cameroon

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• Earnest Njih Tabah,

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

  Affiliations National Yaws, Leishmaniasis, Leprosy and Buruli ulcer Control Programme, Ministry of Public Health, Yaounde, Cameroon, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Dschang, West Region, Cameroon

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• Albert Tchualeu,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Laboratory of Public Health, Yaounde, Cameroon

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• Kingsley Asiedu,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Lorenzo Giacani,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3889-7274

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• Sara Eyangoh ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Centre Pasteur du Cameroun, Yaounde, Cameroon

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• Tania Crucitti

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: crucittitania@gmail.com

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Centre Pasteur du Cameroun, Yaounde, Cameroon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2235-6038

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