About the Authors
- Nicolas A. Gillet
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* E-mail: n.gillet@ulg.ac.be (NAG); c.bangham@imperial.ac.uk (CRMB)
Affiliations Section of Immunology, Wright-Fleming Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Molecular and Cellular Epigenetics, Interdisciplinary Cluster for Applied Genoproteomics (GIGA) of University of Liège (ULg), Liège, Belgium
- Lucy Cook
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Affiliation Section of Immunology, Wright-Fleming Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Daniel J. Laydon
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Affiliation Section of Immunology, Wright-Fleming Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Carol Hlela
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Affiliation Section of Immunology, Wright-Fleming Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Kristien Verdonck
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Affiliations Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt and Hospital Nacional Cayetano Heredia, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
- Carolina Alvarez
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Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt and Hospital Nacional Cayetano Heredia, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
- Eduardo Gotuzzo
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Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt and Hospital Nacional Cayetano Heredia, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
- Daniel Clark
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Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt and Hospital Nacional Cayetano Heredia, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
- Lourdes Farré
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Affiliation Laboratory of Experimental Pathology, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Achiléa Bittencourt
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Affiliation Complexo Hospitalar Universitário Prof. Edgard Santos, Department of Pathology, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Becca Asquith
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Affiliation Section of Immunology, Wright-Fleming Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Graham P. Taylor
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Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Wright-Fleming Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Charles R. M. Bangham
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* E-mail: n.gillet@ulg.ac.be (NAG); c.bangham@imperial.ac.uk (CRMB)
Affiliation Section of Immunology, Wright-Fleming Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Obtained the ethical approvals, managed and recruited the patients, conducted the longitudinal clinical studies, collected the biological samples (blood, CSF and skin lesion): CH KV CA EG DC LF AB GPT. All authors critically revised the manuscript and approved the final submitted version. Conceived and designed the experiments: NAG LC DJL CRMB. Performed the experiments: NAG LC. Analyzed the data: NAG LC DJL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DJL BA CH KV CA EG DC LF AB GPT. Wrote the paper: NAG CRMB.