Simple, Rapid Mycobacterium ulcerans Disease Diagnosis from Clinical Samples by Fluorescence of Mycolactone on Thin Layer Chromatography

• Anita Wadagni,

  Affiliation Centre de Dépistage et de Traitement de l’Ulcère de Buruli d’Allada, Allada, Bénin

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• Michael Frimpong,

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

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• Delphin Mavinga Phanzu,

  Affiliation Institut Médical Evangélique de Kimpese, Kimpese, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Anthony Ablordey,

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

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• Emmanuel Kacou,

  Affiliation Centre de santé Saint michel, Zoukougbeu, Côte d’Ivoire

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• Mirabelle Gbedevi,

  Affiliation Centre de Dépistage et de Traitement de l’Ulcère de Buruli d’Allada, Allada, Bénin

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• Estelle Marion,

  Affiliation Centre de Diagnostic et de Traitement de l'Ulcère de Buruli de Pobè, Fondation Raoul Follereau, Pobè, Bénin

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• Yalan Xing,

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Vaddela Sudheer Babu,

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Richard Odame Phillips ,

  * E-mail: rodamephillips@gmail.com

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

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• Mark Wansbrough-Jones,

  Affiliation St George's University of London, London, United Kingdom

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• Yoshito Kishi,

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Kingsley Asiedu

  Affiliation Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

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