About the Authors

Dang My Nhi

Affiliation Department of Immunogenetics, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Nguyen Tien Huy

tienhuy@nagasaki-u.ac.jp (NTH); hiraken@nagasaki-u.ac.jp (KH)

Affiliation Department of Clinical Product Development, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Kaname Ohyama

Affiliations Department of Environmental and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan, Nagasaki University Research Centre for Genomic Instability and Carcinogenesis (NRGIC), Nagasaki, Japan

Daisuke Kimura

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Nguyen Thi Phuong Lan

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Pasteur Institute, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Leo Uchida

Affiliation Department of Virology, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Nguyen Van Thuong

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Pasteur Institute, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Cao Thi My Nhon

Affiliation Nguyen Dinh Chieu Hospital, Ben Tre Province, Vietnam

Le Hong Phuc

Affiliation Nguyen Dinh Chieu Hospital, Ben Tre Province, Vietnam

Nguyen Thi Mai

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Pasteur Institute, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Shusaku Mizukami

Affiliation Department of Immunogenetics, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Lam Quoc Bao

Affiliation Department of Immunogenetics, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Nguyen Ngoc Doan

Affiliation Nguyen Dinh Chieu Hospital, Ben Tre Province, Vietnam

Nguyen Van Thanh Binh

Affiliation Nguyen Dinh Chieu Hospital, Ben Tre Province, Vietnam

Luong Chan Quang

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Pasteur Institute, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Juntra Karbwang

Affiliation Department of Clinical Product Development, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Katsuyuki Yui

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Kouichi Morita

Affiliation Department of Virology, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Vu Thi Que Huong

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Pasteur Institute, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Kenji Hirayama

tienhuy@nagasaki-u.ac.jp (NTH); hiraken@nagasaki-u.ac.jp (KH)

Affiliation Department of Immunogenetics, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DMN NTH VTQH NTPL KH. Performed the experiments: DMN NTH KO DK NTPL LU NVT CTMN NTM LHP NND NVTB LCQ LQB SM JK KY KM VTQH KH. Analyzed the data: DMN NTH KO DK NTPL LU NVT CTMN NTM LHP NND NVTB LCQ LQB SM JK KY KM VTQH KH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DMN NTH KO DK NTPL LU NVT CTMN NTM LHP NND NVTB LCQ LQB SM JK KY KM VTQH KH. Wrote the paper: DMN NTH KO KH.