Haemophilus ducreyi DNA is detectable on the skin of asymptomatic children, flies and fomites in villages of Papua New Guinea

• Wendy Houinei ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wendy Houinei, Charmie Godornes, Sheila A. Lukehart, Oriol Mitjà

  Affiliation Disease Control Branch, National Department of Health, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

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• Charmie Godornes ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wendy Houinei, Charmie Godornes, Sheila A. Lukehart, Oriol Mitjà

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• August Kapa,

  Affiliation Lihir Medical Centre– International SOS, Newcrest Mining, Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea

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• Sascha Knauf,

  Affiliation German Primate Center, Leibniz-Institute for Primate Research, Pathology Unit, Working Group Neglected Tropical Diseases, Göttingen, Germany

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• Eric Q. Mooring,

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Camila González-Beiras,

  Affiliation Global Public Health PhD Programme, Nova University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

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• Ronald Watup,

  Affiliation Lihir Medical Centre– International SOS, Newcrest Mining, Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea

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• Raymond Paru,

  Affiliation Lihir Medical Centre– International SOS, Newcrest Mining, Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea

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• Paul Advent,

  Affiliation Lihir Medical Centre– International SOS, Newcrest Mining, Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea

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• Sivauk Bieb,

  Affiliation Disease Control Branch, National Department of Health, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

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• Sergi Sanz,

  Affiliation Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Hospital Clinic-University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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• Quique Bassat,

  Affiliations Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Hospital Clinic-University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça (CISM), Maputo, Mozambique, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain

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• Stanley M. Spinola,

  Affiliation Departments of Microbiology and Immunology, Medicine, and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

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• Sheila A. Lukehart ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wendy Houinei, Charmie Godornes, Sheila A. Lukehart, Oriol Mitjà

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Oriol Mitjà

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wendy Houinei, Charmie Godornes, Sheila A. Lukehart, Oriol Mitjà

  * E-mail: oriol.mitja@isglobal.org

  Affiliations Lihir Medical Centre– International SOS, Newcrest Mining, Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea, Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Hospital Clinic-University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Division of Public Health, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3266-8868

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