The murine meninges acquire lymphoid tissue properties and harbour autoreactive B cells during chronic Trypanosoma brucei infection

• Juan F. Quintana ,

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

  * E-mail: juan.quintana@glasgow.ac.uk

  Affiliations Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology and Inflammation, University of Manchester, United Kingdom, Division of Immunology, Immunity to Infection and Health, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester, United Kingdom, School of Biodiversity, One Health, Veterinary Medicine (SBOHVM), College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5092-5576

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• Matthew C. Sinton,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology and Inflammation, University of Manchester, United Kingdom, Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Manchester, United Kingdom

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• Praveena Chandrasegaran,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Biodiversity, One Health, Veterinary Medicine (SBOHVM), College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow United Kingdom

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• Lalit Kumar Dubey,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

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• John Ogunsola,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Biodiversity, One Health, Veterinary Medicine (SBOHVM), College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow United Kingdom

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• Moumen Al Samman,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation School of Biodiversity, One Health, Veterinary Medicine (SBOHVM), College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow United Kingdom

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• Michael Haley,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliations Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology and Inflammation, University of Manchester, United Kingdom, Division of Immunology, Immunity to Infection and Health, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester, United Kingdom

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• Gail McConnell,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences (SIPBS), University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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• Nono-Raymond Kuispond Swar,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, National Institute of Biomedical Research, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Dieudonné Mumba Ngoyi,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, National Institute of Biomedical Research, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• David Bending,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Luis de Lecea,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

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• Annette MacLeod,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Biodiversity, One Health, Veterinary Medicine (SBOHVM), College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow United Kingdom

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• Neil A. Mabbott

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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