Antibody responses against the vaccine antigens Ov-103 and Ov-RAL-2 are associated with protective immunity to Onchocerca volvulus infection in both mice and humans

• Parakkal Jovvian George ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Parakkal Jovvian George, Jessica A. Hess, Sonia Jain

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

  * E-mail: jparakkal@nybc.org

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

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9847-6829

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• Jessica A. Hess ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Parakkal Jovvian George, Jessica A. Hess, Sonia Jain

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Sonia Jain ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Parakkal Jovvian George, Jessica A. Hess, Sonia Jain

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

  Current address: Invictus Oncology Pvt. Ltd., Delhi, India

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

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• John B. Patton,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Tingting Zhan,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software

  Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Nancy Tricoche,

  Roles Methodology, Visualization

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

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• Bin Zhan,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Pediatric Tropical Medicine and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Maria Elena Bottazzi,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Pediatric Tropical Medicine and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Peter J. Hotez,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Pediatric Tropical Medicine and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• David Abraham,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Sara Lustigman

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

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

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