Polarized lung inflammation and Tie2/angiopoietin-mediated endothelial dysfunction during severe Orientia tsutsugamushi infection

• Brandon Trent,

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

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

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• Yuejin Liang,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Yan Xing,

  Roles Data curation, Visualization

  Current address: People's Hospital of Henan Province, Henan, China

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Marisol Esqueda,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2182-2105

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• Yang Wei,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Current address: Core Research Laboratory, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Nam-Hyuk Cho,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul Republic of Korea, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• Hong-Il Kim,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• Yeon-Sook Kim,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Chungnam National University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

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• Thomas R. Shelite,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Jiyang Cai,

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

  Current address: Department of Physiology, OUHSC, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Jiaren Sun,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Donald H. Bouyer,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Validation

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

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• Jinjun Liu ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Visualization

  * E-mail: jupet@163.com (JL); lysoong@utmb.edu (LS)

  Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Xi’an Jiaotong University Health Science Center, Xi’an, China

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• Lynn Soong

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jupet@163.com (JL); lysoong@utmb.edu (LS)

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

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3370-3434

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