Clearance of viable Mycobacterium ulcerans from Buruli ulcer lesions during antibiotic treatment as determined by combined 16S rRNA reverse transcriptase /IS 2404 qPCR assay

• Mabel Sarpong-Duah,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Michael Frimpong,

  Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Marcus Beissner,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine (DITM), University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

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• Malkin Saar,

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

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine (DITM), University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

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• Ken Laing,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Infection and Immunity, St George's University of London, London, United Kingdom

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• Francisca Sarpong,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Aloysius Dzigbordi Loglo,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Kabiru Mohammed Abass,

  Roles Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Agogo Presbyterian Hospital, Agogo, Ghana

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• Margaret Frempong,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Fred Stephen Sarfo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Gisela Bretzel,

  Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine (DITM), University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

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• Mark Wansbrough-Jones,

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

  Affiliation Institute of Infection and Immunity, St George's University of London, London, United Kingdom

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• Richard Odame Phillips

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

  * E-mail: rodamephillips@gmail.com

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

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8992-0222

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