About the Authors
- Kebede Deribe
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* E-mail: Kebededeka@yahoo.com
Affiliations Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom, School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Simon J. Brooker
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Affiliations Kenya Medical Research Institute-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
- Rachel L. Pullan
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Affiliation Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
- Asrat Hailu
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Affiliation School of Medicine, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Fikre Enquselassie
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Affiliation School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Richard Reithinger
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Affiliations Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, International Development Group, Research Triangle Institute, Washington, D. C., United States of America
- Melanie Newport
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Affiliation Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom
- Gail Davey
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Affiliation Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
KD was supported by TOMS Shoes for preparatory work of mapping podoconiosis in Ethiopia during the writing of the manuscript. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: KD SJB GD. Performed the experiments: KD SJB RLP GD. Analyzed the data: KD SJB RLP GD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SJB RLP. Wrote the paper: KD SJB RLP AH FE RR MN GD.