Vitamin D status contributes to the antimicrobial activity of macrophages against Mycobacterium leprae

• Elliot W. Kim,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Rosane M. B. Teles,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Division of Dermatology, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2908-3244

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• Salem Haile,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Hematology and Oncology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0484-7930

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• Philip T. Liu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Dermatology, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, UCLA and Orthopaedic Hospital Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and the Orthopaedic Hospital Research Center, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Robert L. Modlin

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

  * E-mail: rmodlin@mednet.ucla.edu

  Affiliations Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Division of Dermatology, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4720-031X

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