Chronic wounds in Sierra Leone: Searching for Buruli ulcer, a NTD caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans, at Masanga Hospital

• Helen R. Please ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: helenplease@gmail.com

  Affiliation Leeds Institute of Medical Research, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8758-6889

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• Jonathan H. Vas Nunes,

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

  Affiliations Center of Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Masanga Medical Research Unit, Masanga, Sierra Leone, CapaCare International, Trondheim, Norway

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4012-4177

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• Rashida Patel,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Leeds Institute of Medical Research, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7908-9161

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• Gerd Pluschke,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1957-2925

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• Mohamed Tholley,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Masanga Medical Research Unit, Masanga, Sierra Leone

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• Marie-Therésè Ruf,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• William Bolton,

  Roles Project administration

  Affiliation Leeds Institute of Medical Research, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8451-9595

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• Julian A. Scott,

  Roles Project administration

  Affiliation Leeds Institute of Medical Research, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

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• Martin P. Grobusch,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center of Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Masanga Medical Research Unit, Masanga, Sierra Leone, CapaCare International, Trondheim, Norway

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• Håkon A. Bolkan,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Masanga Medical Research Unit, Masanga, Sierra Leone, CapaCare International, Trondheim, Norway, Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9609-4093

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• Julia M. Brown,

  Roles Project administration

  Affiliation Institute of Clinical Trials Research, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

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• David G. Jayne

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Leeds Institute of Medical Research, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

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