CD8⁺ T cells provide immune protection against murine disseminated endotheliotropic Orientia tsutsugamushi infection

• Guang Xu,

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

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Nicole L. Mendell,

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

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Yuejin Liang,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Thomas R. Shelite,

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

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Yenny Goez-Rivillas,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

  Current address: Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Lynn Soong,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Donald H. Bouyer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• David H. Walker

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dwalker@utmb.edu

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3309-4360

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