Transformation of Fonsecaea pedrosoi into sclerotic cells links to the refractoriness of experimental chromoblastomycosis in BALB/c mice via a mechanism involving a chitin-induced impairment of IFN-γ production

• Bilin Dong ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bilin Dong, Zhongsheng Tong

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

  Affiliation Center for Infectious Skin Diseases, Department of Dermatology, No. 1 Hospital of Wuhan, Wuhan, China

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• Zhongsheng Tong ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bilin Dong, Zhongsheng Tong

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Center for Infectious Skin Diseases, Department of Dermatology, No. 1 Hospital of Wuhan, Wuhan, China

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• Ruoyu Li,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

  Affiliation Research Center for Medical Mycology, Peking University, Beijing, China

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• Sharon C.-A. Chen,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Laboratory Services, ICPMR, Westmead Hospital, University of Sydney, Westmead, Australia

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• Weihuang Liu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation

  Affiliation Medical Research Center of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

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• Wei Liu,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation

  Affiliation Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China

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• Yao Chen,

  Roles Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Center for Infectious Skin Diseases, Department of Dermatology, No. 1 Hospital of Wuhan, Wuhan, China

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• Xu Zhang,

  Roles Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Center for Infectious Skin Diseases, Department of Dermatology, No. 1 Hospital of Wuhan, Wuhan, China

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• Yiqun Duan,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Center for Infectious Skin Diseases, Department of Dermatology, No. 1 Hospital of Wuhan, Wuhan, China

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• Dongsheng Li ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources

  * E-mail: dongshengli1975@126.com (DL); chenlq1974@126.com (LC)

  Affiliation Center for Infectious Skin Diseases, Department of Dermatology, No. 1 Hospital of Wuhan, Wuhan, China

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• Liuqing Chen

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  * E-mail: dongshengli1975@126.com (DL); chenlq1974@126.com (LC)

  Affiliation Center for Infectious Skin Diseases, Department of Dermatology, No. 1 Hospital of Wuhan, Wuhan, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0570-5259

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