About the Authors

Ralf Krumkamp

Contributed equally to this work with: Ralf Krumkamp, Kwabena Oppong

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), Hamburg, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, Germany

Kwabena Oppong

Contributed equally to this work with: Ralf Krumkamp, Kwabena Oppong

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kumasi, Ghana

Benedikt Hogan

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), Hamburg, Germany

Ricardo Strauss

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), Hamburg, Germany

Hagen Frickmann

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department for Tropical Medicine at the Bernhard Nocht Institute, Bundeswehr Hospital Hamburg, Germany

Charity Wiafe-Akenten

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kumasi, Ghana

Kennedy G. Boahen

Roles Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kumasi, Ghana

Volker Rickerts

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department Mycotic and Parasitic Agents and Mycobacteria, Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Berlin, Germany

Ilka McCormick Smith

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department Mycotic and Parasitic Agents and Mycobacteria, Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Berlin, Germany

Uwe Groß

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), Göttingen, Germany

Marco Schulze

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), Göttingen, Germany

Anna Jaeger

Roles Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), Hamburg, Germany

Ulrike Loderstädt

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), Hamburg, Germany

Nimako Sarpong

Roles Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kumasi, Ghana

Ellis Owusu-Dabo

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kumasi, Ghana

Jürgen May

Roles Conceptualization, Validation

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), Hamburg, Germany

Denise Dekker

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

dekker@bnitm.de

Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), Hamburg, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.