A novel synthetic DNA vaccine elicits protective immune responses against Powassan virus

• Hyeree Choi,

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

  Affiliation Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4999-3640

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• Sagar B. Kudchodkar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Michelle Ho,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Emma L. Reuschel,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4627-1354

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• Erin Reynolds,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, SUNY Center for Environmental Health and Medicine, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

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• Ziyang Xu,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7690-7029

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• Devivasha Bordoloi,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Kenneth E. Ugen,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7797-2049

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• Pablo Tebas,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5345-7942

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• Joseph Kim,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation R&D, Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Mohamed Abdel-Mohsen,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9945-4314

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• Saravanan Thangamani,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, SUNY Center for Environmental Health and Medicine, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4269-5993

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• David B. Weiner,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Kar Muthumani

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

  * E-mail: kmuthumani@wistar.org

  Affiliation Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6807-2065

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