Preliminary evaluations of 3-dimensional human skin models for their ability to facilitate in vitro the long-term development of the debilitating obligatory human parasite Onchocerca volvulus

• Christoph Malkmus ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christoph Malkmus, Shabnam Jawahar

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

  Affiliation Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Shabnam Jawahar ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christoph Malkmus, Shabnam Jawahar

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, 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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• Nancy Tricoche,

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

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3895-7062

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• Sara Lustigman ,

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

  * E-mail: SLustigman@nybc.org (SL); jan.hansmann@isc.fraunhofer.de (JH)

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

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

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• Jan Hansmann

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

  * E-mail: SLustigman@nybc.org (SL); jan.hansmann@isc.fraunhofer.de (JH)

  Affiliation Translational Center for Regenerative Therapies, Fraunhofer ISC, Würzburg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4132-9737

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