Identification and characterization of a novel nematode pan allergen (NPA) from Wuchereria bancrofti and their potential role in human filarial tropical pulmonary eosinophilia (TPE)

• Samuel Christopher Katru ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Samuel Christopher Katru, Anand Setty Balakrishnan

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

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Illinois, College of Medicine Rockford, Rockford, IL, United States of America

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• Anand Setty Balakrishnan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Samuel Christopher Katru, Anand Setty Balakrishnan

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Illinois, College of Medicine Rockford, Rockford, IL, United States of America

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• Gnanasekar Munirathinam,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Illinois, College of Medicine Rockford, Rockford, IL, United States of America

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• Azadeh Hadadianpour,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, A2210 Medical Center North, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Scott A. Smith,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, A2210 Medical Center North, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Ramaswamy Kalyanasundaram

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

  * E-mail: ramswamy@uic.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Illinois, College of Medicine Rockford, Rockford, IL, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2202-9245

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