Buruli ulcer surveillance in south-eastern Australian possums: Infection status, lesion mapping and internal distribution of Mycobacterium ulcerans

• Emma C. Hobbs ,

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

  * E-mail: ehobbs@unimelb.edu.au, emmaclarehobbs@yahoo.com.au

  Affiliations Melbourne Veterinary School, Department of Veterinary Biosciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne, Werribee, Victoria, Australia, Department of Infectious Diseases, The University of Melbourne, at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3363-0223

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• Jessica L. Porter,

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

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

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• Jean Y. H. Lee,

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

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

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• Panayiotis Loukopoulos,

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

  Affiliation Melbourne Veterinary School, Department of Veterinary Biosciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne, Werribee, Victoria, Australia

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• Pam Whiteley,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Melbourne Veterinary School, Department of Veterinary Biosciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne, Werribee, Victoria, Australia

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• Lee F. Skerratt,

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

  Affiliation Melbourne Veterinary School, Department of Veterinary Biosciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne, Werribee, Victoria, Australia

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• Timothy P. Stinear ,

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

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

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

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• Katherine B. Gibney ,

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

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

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

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• Anna L. Meredith

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

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

  Affiliations Melbourne Veterinary School, Department of Veterinary Biosciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne, Werribee, Victoria, Australia, Office of the Dean, Faculty of Natural Sciences, The University of Keele, England, United Kingdom

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