Micronutrient-deficient diets and possible environmental enteric dysfunction in Buruli ulcer endemic communities in Ghana: Lower dietary diversity and reduced serum zinc and vitamin C implicate micronutrient status a possible susceptibility factor

• Aloysius Dzigbordi Loglo,

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

  Affiliations Microbes, Infection & Immunity, School of Biosciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom, Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Philemon Boasiako Antwi,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Kabiru Mohammed Abass,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Agogo Presbyterian Hospital, Agogo, Ghana

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• Samuel Osei-Mireku,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Agogo Presbyterian Hospital, Agogo, Ghana

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• George Amofa,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Dunkwa Government Hospital, Dunkwa, Ghana

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• Elizabeth Ofori,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Tepa Government Hospital, Tepa, Ghana

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• Jonathan Kofi Adjei,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Michael Ntiamoah Oppong,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Richard Odame Phillips,

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

  Affiliations Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Department of Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Reginald Annan,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, College of Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Barbara Engel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nutritional Sciences, School of Biosciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom

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• Rachel E. Simmonds

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

  * E-mail: rachel.simmonds@surrey.ac.uk

  Affiliation Microbes, Infection & Immunity, School of Biosciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4843-8266

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