Mycobacterium ulcerans challenge strain selection for a Buruli ulcer controlled human infection model

• Stephen Muhi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: steve.muhi@unimelb.edu.au

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3161-8199

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• Andrew H. Buultjens,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Jessica L. Porter,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Julia L. Marshall,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Marcel Doerflinger,

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

  Affiliations The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Department of Medical Biology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Sacha J. Pidot,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Daniel P. O’Brien,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Department of Infectious Diseases, Barwon Health, Geelong, Victoria, Australia

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• Paul D. R. Johnson,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Northeast Public Health Unit, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia

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• Caroline J. Lavender,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Victorian Infectious Disease Reference Laboratory (VIDRL), Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Maria Globan,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Victorian Infectious Disease Reference Laboratory (VIDRL), Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• James McCarthy,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Department of Infectious Diseases, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Joshua Osowicki,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Tropical Diseases Research Group, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, The Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of General Medicine, Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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• Timothy P. Stinear

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

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Victorian Infectious Disease Reference Laboratory (VIDRL), Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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