α-galactosylceramide-stimulated invariant natural killer T-cells play a protective role in murine vulvovaginal candidiasis by Candida albicans

• Masahiro Abe,

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

  Affiliation Department of Chemotherapy and Mycoses, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6355-716X

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• Yuki Kinjo,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Bacteriology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, Jikei Center for Biofilm Science and Technology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Intelligent Network for Infection Control, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9915-7013

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• Sota Sadamoto,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Chemotherapy and Mycoses, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Surgical Pathology, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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• Minoru Shinozaki,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgical Pathology, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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• Minoru Nagi,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Chemotherapy and Mycoses, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

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• Kazutoshi Shibuya,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgical Pathology, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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• Yoshitsugu Miyazaki

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ym46@niid.go.jp

  Affiliation Department of Chemotherapy and Mycoses, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

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