Adiponectin in the mammalian host influences ticks’ acquisition of the Lyme disease pathogen Borrelia

Xiaotian Tang; Yongguo Cao; Carmen J. Booth; Gunjan Arora; Yingjun Cui; Jaqueline Matias; Erol Fikrig

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3002331

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Adiponectin in the mammalian host influences ticks’ acquisition of the Lyme disease pathogen Borrelia

Xiaotian Tang ,

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

* E-mail: xiaotian.tang@yale.edu

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0171-9354

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Yongguo Cao,

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

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun, China
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Carmen J. Booth,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Comparative Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Gunjan Arora,

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

Current address: National Heart Lung & Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Yingjun Cui,

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

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Jaqueline Matias,

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

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Erol Fikrig

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Adiponectin in the mammalian host influences ticks’ acquisition of the Lyme disease pathogen Borrelia

Xiaotian Tang,
Yongguo Cao,
Carmen J. Booth,
Gunjan Arora,
Yingjun Cui,
Jaqueline Matias,
Erol Fikrig

Published: October 20, 2023
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002331

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