About the Authors

Louis de Léséleuc

Affiliations McGill Centre for the Study of Host Resistance, The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Departments of Human Genetics and Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Marianna Orlova

Contributed equally to this work with: Marianna Orlova, Aurelie Cobat

Affiliation McGill Centre for the Study of Host Resistance, The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Aurelie Cobat

Contributed equally to this work with: Marianna Orlova, Aurelie Cobat

Affiliations McGill Centre for the Study of Host Resistance, The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Departments of Human Genetics and Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Manon Girard

Affiliation McGill Centre for the Study of Host Resistance, The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Nguyen Thu Huong

Affiliation Hospital for Dermato-Venereology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Nguyen Ngoc Ba

Affiliation Hospital for Dermato-Venereology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Nguyen Van Thuc

Affiliation Hospital for Dermato-Venereology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Richard Truman

Affiliation National Hansen's Disease Program, LSU School of Veterinary Medicine, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

John S. Spencer

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Linda Adams

Affiliation National Hansen's Disease Program, LSU School of Veterinary Medicine, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Vu Hong Thai

Affiliation Hospital for Dermato-Venereology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Alexandre Alcais

Affiliations Laboratoire de Génétique des Maladies Infectieuses, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, U980, Paris, France, Université Paris René Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Faculté Médicine Necker, Paris, France, St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Rockefeller Branch, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Erwin Schurr

erwin.schurr@mcgill.ca

Affiliations McGill Centre for the Study of Host Resistance, The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Departments of Human Genetics and Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LDL AA ES. Performed the experiments: LDL MO MG NTH NNB. Analyzed the data: LDL AC AA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JSS RT LA NVT VHT. Wrote the paper: LDL AA ES.