Molecular and epidemiological characterization of recurrent Mycobacterium ulcerans infections in Benin

• Ronald Gnimavo,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Centre de Diagnostic et de Traitement de l’ulcère de Buruli, Fondation Raoul Follereau, Pobè, Bénin

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• Alban Besnard,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Univ Angers, Inserm, INCIT, Angers, France

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• Horace Degnonvi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Univ Angers, Inserm, INCIT, Angers, France, Centre Inter Facultaire de Formation et de Recherche en Environnement pour le Développement Durable (CIFRED), Université d’Abomey Calavi (UAC), Cotonou, Benin

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3732-1196

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• Juliana Pipoli Da Fonseca,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Institut Curie Genomics of Excellence (ICGex) Platform, Institut Curie, Paris, France

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• Marie Kempf,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Univ Angers, Inserm, CHU Angers, INCIT, Angers, France

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• Christian Roch Johnson,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Centre Inter Facultaire de Formation et de Recherche en Environnement pour le Développement Durable (CIFRED), Université d’Abomey Calavi (UAC), Cotonou, Benin

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• Alexandra Boccarossa,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliations Univ Angers, Inserm, INCIT, Angers, France, CNRS, UMR ESO, Université d’Angers, Angers, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1110-4780

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• Yao Télesphore Brou,

  Roles Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation UMR 228 ESPACE-DEV (IRD, UAG, UM, UR), Station SEAS-OI, Saint Pierre, Ile de la Réunion, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6273-7636

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• Laurent Marsollier ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Laurent Marsollier, Estelle Marion

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Univ Angers, Inserm, INCIT, Angers, France

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• Estelle Marion

  Contributed equally to this work with: Laurent Marsollier, Estelle Marion

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Estelle.marion@inserm.fr

  Affiliation Univ Angers, Inserm, INCIT, Angers, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4917-9665

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