Malnutrition-related parasite dissemination from the skin in visceral leishmaniasis is driven by PGE₂-mediated amplification of CCR7-related trafficking of infected inflammatory monocytes

• E. Yaneth Osorio ,

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

  * E-mail: pcmelby@utmb.edu (PCM); ejosorio@utmb.edu (EYO)

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8014-6330

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• Ashanti Uscanga-Palomeque,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

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

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• Grace T. Patterson,

  Roles Data curation

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

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• Erika Cordova,

  Roles Data curation

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

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• Bruno L. Travi,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, 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, Center for Tropical Diseases and Institute for Human Infection and Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Lynn Soong,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Center for Tropical Diseases and Institute for Human Infection and Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Peter C. Melby

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: pcmelby@utmb.edu (PCM); ejosorio@utmb.edu (EYO)

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, 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, Center for Tropical Diseases and Institute for Human Infection and Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7320-7406

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