Experimental African Trypanosome Infection by Needle Passage or Natural Tsetse Fly Challenge Thwarts the Development of Collagen-Induced Arthritis in DBA/1 Prone Mice via an Impairment of Antigen Specific B Cell Autoantibody Titers

• Carl De Trez ,

  * E-mail: cdetrez@vub.ac.be

  Affiliations Research Unit of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, VIB Department of Structural Biology, Brussels, Belgium

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• Brunette Katsandegwaza,

  Affiliations Research Unit of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, VIB Department of Structural Biology, Brussels, Belgium

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• Guy Caljon,

  Affiliations Unit of Veterinary Protozoology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp (ITM), Antwerp, Belgium, Unit of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium, Laboratory of Myeloid Cell Immunology, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB), Brussels, Belgium

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• Stefan Magez

  Affiliations Research Unit of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, VIB Department of Structural Biology, Brussels, Belgium

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