About the Authors

Hiroyuki Saiga

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

saiga-h@niid.go.jp

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan, Research Center for Vaccine Development, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan Institute for Health Security, Tokyo, Japan, Leprosy Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan Institute for Health Security, Tokyo, Japan

Masaki Ueno

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Host Defense, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan

Toshiki Tamura

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Leprosy Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan Institute for Health Security, Tokyo, Japan

Yusuke Tsujimura

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Leprosy Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan Institute for Health Security, Tokyo, Japan

Masamitsu N. Asaka

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Leprosy Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan Institute for Health Security, Tokyo, Japan

Yumiko Tsukamoto

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Leprosy Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan Institute for Health Security, Tokyo, Japan

Tetsu Mukai

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Leprosy Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan Institute for Health Security, Tokyo, Japan

Michito Hamada

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Satoru Takahashi

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Takashi Tanaka

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory for Developmental Genetics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS), Kanagawa, Japan

Tsuneyasu Kaisho

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Industry-Government-Academia Collaboration Promotion Headquarters, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan, Laboratory for Human Disease Models, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS), Kanagawa, Japan

Yoshimasa Takahashi

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research Center for Vaccine Development, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan Institute for Health Security, Tokyo, Japan

Katsuaki Hoshino

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan, Laboratory for Human Disease Models, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS), Kanagawa, Japan

Manabu Ato

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Leprosy Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan Institute for Health Security, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.