Differential cellular immune responses against Orientia tsutsugamushi Karp and Gilliam strains following acute infection in mice

• Joseph D. Thiriot ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joseph D. Thiriot, Yuejin Liang

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

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

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• Yuejin Liang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joseph D. Thiriot, Yuejin Liang

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

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

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• Casey Gonzales,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Institute for Human Infection and Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Jiaren Sun,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, 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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• Xiaoying Yu,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics & Data Science, 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, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lysoong@utmb.edu

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, 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/0000-0003-3370-3434

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