Antibody-Mediated Neutralization of the Exotoxin Mycolactone, the Main Virulence Factor Produced by Mycobacterium ulcerans

• Jean-Pierre Dangy ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jean-Pierre Dangy, Nicole Scherr

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Nicole Scherr ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jean-Pierre Dangy, Nicole Scherr

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Philipp Gersbach,

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

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• Melanie N. Hug,

  Affiliation Roche Innovation Center, Chemical Biology, Basel, Switzerland

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• Raphael Bieri,

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Claudio Bomio,

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

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• Jun Li,

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

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• Sylwia Huber,

  Affiliation Roche Innovation Center, Chemical Biology, Basel, Switzerland

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• Karl-Heinz Altmann,

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

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• Gerd Pluschke

  * E-mail: gerd.pluschke@unibas.ch

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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