About the Authors

Arianna Andreoli

Contributed equally to this work with: Arianna Andreoli, Marie-Thérèse Ruf

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Marie-Thérèse Ruf

Contributed equally to this work with: Arianna Andreoli, Marie-Thérèse Ruf

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Ghislain Emmanuel Sopoh

Affiliation Centre de Depistage et de Traitement de l'Ulcere de Buruli d'Allada, Allada, Benin

Peter Schmid

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Gerd Pluschke

gerd.pluschke@unibas.ch

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AA MTR PS GP. Performed the experiments: AA MTR. Analyzed the data: AA MTR PS GP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GES. Wrote the paper: AA MTR GES PS GP.