Type 1-skewed neuroinflammation and vascular damage associated with Orientia tsutsugamushi infection in mice

• Lynn Soong ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lynn Soong, Thomas R. Shelite, Yan Xing

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

  * E-mail: lysoong@utmb.edu

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Human Infections and Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Thomas R. Shelite ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lynn Soong, Thomas R. Shelite, Yan Xing

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

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Human Infections and Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine/Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6686-6032

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• Yan Xing ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lynn Soong, Thomas R. Shelite, Yan Xing

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Human Infections and Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Pediatrics Department, People's Hospital of Henan Province, Zheng Zhou, Henan, China

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• Harica Kodakandla,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Yuejin Liang,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Human Infections and Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Brandon J. Trent,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

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

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• Paulina Horton,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Human Infections and Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Kathryn C. Smith,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Center in Environmental Toxicology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Zhenyang Zhao,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Institute of Human Infections and Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Jiaren Sun,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Human Infections and Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Donald H. Bouyer,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources

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

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• Jiyang Cai

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Institute of Human Infections and Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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