Increased level and interferon-γ production of circulating natural killer cells in patients with scrub typhus

• Seung-Ji Kang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Seung-Ji Kang, Hye-Mi Jin

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

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Chonnam National University Medical School and Hospital, Gwangju, Republic of Korea

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• Hye-Mi Jin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Seung-Ji Kang, Hye-Mi Jin

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

  Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Chonnam National University Medical School and Hospital, Gwangju, Republic of Korea

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• Young-Nan Cho,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Chonnam National University Medical School and Hospital, Gwangju, Republic of Korea

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• Seong Eun Kim,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Chonnam National University Medical School and Hospital, Gwangju, Republic of Korea

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• Uh Jin Kim,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Chonnam National University Medical School and Hospital, Gwangju, Republic of Korea

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• Kyung-Hwa Park,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Chonnam National University Medical School and Hospital, Gwangju, Republic of Korea

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• Hee-Chang Jang,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Chonnam National University Medical School and Hospital, Gwangju, Republic of Korea

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• Sook-In Jung,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Chonnam National University Medical School and Hospital, Gwangju, Republic of Korea

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• Seung-Jung Kee ,

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

  * E-mail: parkyw@jnu.ac.kr (YWP); sjkee@jnu.ac.kr (SJK)

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School and Hospital, Gwangju, Republic of Korea

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• Yong-Wook Park

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

  * E-mail: parkyw@jnu.ac.kr (YWP); sjkee@jnu.ac.kr (SJK)

  Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Chonnam National University Medical School and Hospital, Gwangju, Republic of Korea

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6937-7119

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