Exploring the impact of inoculum dose on host immunity and morbidity to inform model-based vaccine design

• Andreas Handel ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ahandel@uga.edu

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Health Informatics Institute and Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4622-1146

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• Yan Li,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Center for Research Informatics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

  Affiliation Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Brian McKay,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3859-7634

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• Kasia A. Pawelek,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Computational Science, University of South Carolina Beaufort, Bluffton, South Carolina, United States of America

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• Veronika Zarnitsyna,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3096-3695

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• Rustom Antia

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7991-614X

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