About the Authors

Akira Kawashima

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations AIDS Clinical Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Japan Institute for Health Security, Tokyo, Japan, The Joint Research Center for Human Retrovirus Infection Kumamoto University Campus, Kumamoto, Japan, Department of Parasitology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan Institute for Health Security, Tokyo, Japan

Yasuaki Yanagawa

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations AIDS Clinical Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Japan Institute for Health Security, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Takayuki Chikata

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Joint Research Center for Human Retrovirus Infection Kumamoto University Campus, Kumamoto, Japan

Rieko Shimogawara

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan Institute for Health Security, Tokyo, Japan

Daisuke Mizushima

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations AIDS Clinical Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Japan Institute for Health Security, Tokyo, Japan, The Joint Research Center for Human Retrovirus Infection Kumamoto University Campus, Kumamoto, Japan

Kiyoto Tsuchiya

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation AIDS Clinical Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Japan Institute for Health Security, Tokyo, Japan

Kenji Yagita

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan Institute for Health Security, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroyuki Gatanaga

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations AIDS Clinical Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Japan Institute for Health Security, Tokyo, Japan, The Joint Research Center for Human Retrovirus Infection Kumamoto University Campus, Kumamoto, Japan

Koji Watanabe

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

kwatanab@tokai.ac.jp

Affiliations The Joint Research Center for Human Retrovirus Infection Kumamoto University Campus, Kumamoto, Japan, Department of Parasitology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan Institute for Health Security, Tokyo, Japan, Division of Host Defense Mechanism, Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.