Development of a preliminary in vitro drug screening assay based on a newly established culturing system for pre-adult fifth-stage Onchocerca volvulus worms

• Denis Voronin ,

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

  * E-mail: DVoronin@nybc.org

  Affiliation Molecular Parasitology, Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Nancy Tricoche,

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

  Affiliation Molecular Parasitology, Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Shabnam Jawahar,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Molecular Parasitology, Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Michael Shlossman,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Molecular Parasitology, Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Christina A. Bulman,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dept. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Chelsea Fischer,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Dept. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6402-5886

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• Michael T. Suderman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cell Systems-3D, LLC, Kemah, Texas, United States of America

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• Judy A. Sakanari,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dept. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Sara Lustigman

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Molecular Parasitology, Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, New York Blood Center, New York, New York, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2389-6113

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