About the Authors

Vinicius M. Fava

erwin.schurr@mcgill.ca (ES); vinicius.medeirosfava@mail.mcgill.ca (VMF)

Affiliations Program in Infectious Diseases and Immunity in Global Health, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, The McGill International TB Centre, Departments of Human Genetics and Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Jeremy Manry

Contributed equally to this work with: Jeremy Manry, Aurélie Cobat

Affiliations Program in Infectious Diseases and Immunity in Global Health, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, The McGill International TB Centre, Departments of Human Genetics and Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Aurélie Cobat

Contributed equally to this work with: Jeremy Manry, Aurélie Cobat

Affiliations Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Necker Branch, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U.1163, Paris, France, University Paris Descartes, Imagine Institute, Paris, France, Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Rockefeller Branch, Rockefeller University, New York, United States of America

Marianna Orlova

Affiliations Program in Infectious Diseases and Immunity in Global Health, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, The McGill International TB Centre, Departments of Human Genetics and Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Nguyen Van Thuc

Affiliation Hospital for Dermato-Venerology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Milton O. Moraes

Affiliation Laboratório de Hanseníase, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Carolinne Sales-Marques

Affiliation Laboratório de Hanseníase, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Mariane M. A. Stefani

Affiliation Tropical Pathology and Public Health Institute, Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil

Ana Carla P. Latini

Affiliation Lauro de Souza Lima Institute, Bauru, Brazil

Andrea F. Belone

Affiliation Lauro de Souza Lima Institute, Bauru, Brazil

Vu Hong Thai

Affiliation Hospital for Dermato-Venerology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Laurent Abel

Affiliations Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Necker Branch, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U.1163, Paris, France, University Paris Descartes, Imagine Institute, Paris, France, Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Rockefeller Branch, Rockefeller University, New York, United States of America

Alexandre Alcaïs

Affiliations Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Necker Branch, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U.1163, Paris, France, University Paris Descartes, Imagine Institute, Paris, France, Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Rockefeller Branch, Rockefeller University, New York, United States of America

Erwin Schurr

erwin.schurr@mcgill.ca (ES); vinicius.medeirosfava@mail.mcgill.ca (VMF)

Affiliations Program in Infectious Diseases and Immunity in Global Health, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, The McGill International TB Centre, Departments of Human Genetics and Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: VMF ES AA LA. Data curation: VMF JM AC. Formal analysis: VMF. Funding acquisition: ES AA. Investigation: VMF MO MOM. Project administration: ES AA LA. Resources: MO NVT MOM CSM MMAS ACPL AFB VHT. Writing – original draft: VMF ES. Writing – review & editing: AC LA AA.