Alterations in germinal center formation and B cell activation during severe Orientia tsutsugamushi infection in mice

• Casey Gonzales,

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

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Institute of Human Infections and Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• James Fisher,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Galen Card,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

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

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• Jiaren Sun,

  Roles 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, Institute of Human Infections and Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Lynn Soong

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

  * E-mail: lysoong@utmb.edu

  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, Institute of Human Infections and Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Sealy Institute for Vaccine Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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

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