Elucidating the functional role of the novel BdP50 protein and extracellular vesicles in the human erythrocyte infection by Babesia divergens

• Luis Miguel Gonzalez,

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

  Affiliation Parasitology Reference and Research Laboratory, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain

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• Belen Revuelta,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Parasitology Reference and Research Laboratory, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain

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• Aitor Gil,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Parasitology Reference and Research Laboratory, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain

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• María C. Terrón,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Electron Microscopy Unit. Scientific and Technical Central Units, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain

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• Martin Christoph Sachse,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Electron Microscopy Unit. Scientific and Technical Central Units, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain, Electron Microscopy Unit. Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, CSIC-UAM, Campus de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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• Javier Sotillo,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Parasitology Reference and Research Laboratory, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain

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• Daniel Luque,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Electron Microscopy Unit. Scientific and Technical Central Units, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain, Electron Microscope Unit, Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• S M Raihan Rahman,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

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• Reginaldo G. Bastos,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America, Animal Disease Research Unit, USDA-ARS, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

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• Carlos Esteban Suarez,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America, Animal Disease Research Unit, USDA-ARS, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

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• Estrella Montero

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

  * E-mail: estrella.montero@isciii.es

  Affiliation Parasitology Reference and Research Laboratory, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3852-960X

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