About the Authors

Nicolas A. Gillet

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

Affiliation Section of Immunology, Wright-Fleming Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Daniel J. Laydon

Affiliation Section of Immunology, Wright-Fleming Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Carol Hlela

Affiliation Section of Immunology, Wright-Fleming Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Kristien Verdonck

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

Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt and Hospital Nacional Cayetano Heredia, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

Eduardo Gotuzzo

Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt and Hospital Nacional Cayetano Heredia, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

Daniel Clark

Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt and Hospital Nacional Cayetano Heredia, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

Lourdes Farré

Affiliation Laboratory of Experimental Pathology, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Achiléa Bittencourt

Affiliation Complexo Hospitalar Universitário Prof. Edgard Santos, Department of Pathology, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Becca Asquith

Affiliation Section of Immunology, Wright-Fleming Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Graham P. Taylor

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Wright-Fleming Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Charles R. M. Bangham

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.