Hemophagocytosis induced by Leishmania donovani infection is beneficial to parasite survival within macrophages

• Ayako Morimoto,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Department of Animal Resource Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Kazuyuki Uchida,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Laboratory of Veterinary Pathology, Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• James K. Chambers,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Laboratory of Veterinary Pathology, Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Kai Sato,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Department of Animal Resource Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Jing Hong,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Department of Animal Resource Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Chizu Sanjoba,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Department of Animal Resource Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Yoshitsugu Matsumoto,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Department of Animal Resource Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Junya Yamagishi,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Global Station for Zoonosis Control, GI-CoRE, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Yasuyuki Goto

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: aygoto@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Department of Animal Resource Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8654-7888

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