Pre-treatment with Lactobacillus plantarum prevents severe pathogenesis in mice infected with Leptospira interrogans and may be associated with recruitment of myeloid cells

• Hari-Hara Potula,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Current address: Memphis VA Medical Center, Memphis Tennessee, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Luciana Richer,

  Roles Methodology, Validation

  Current address: US Biologic Inc., Memphis Tennessee, United States of America

  Affiliation Immuno Technologies Inc., Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Catherine Werts,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Unit Biology and Genetics of the Bacterial Cell Wall, Paris, France, INSERM, Équipe Avenir, Paris, France

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• Maria Gomes-Solecki

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

  * E-mail: mgomesso@uthsc.edu

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Immuno Technologies Inc., Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3715-4543

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