Mononuclear-macrophages but not neutrophils act as major infiltrating anti-leptospiral phagocytes during leptospirosis

• Xu Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xu Chen, Shi-Jun Li

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

  Affiliations Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China, Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China, Division of Basic Medical Microbiology, State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China

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• Shi-Jun Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xu Chen, Shi-Jun Li

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

  Affiliation Guizhou Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guiyang, Guizhou, P.R. China

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• David M. Ojcius,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of the Pacific, Arthur Dugoni School of Dentistry, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Ai-Hua Sun,

  Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Faculty of Basic Medicine, Hangzhou Medical College, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China

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• Wei-Lin Hu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliations Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China, Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China, Division of Basic Medical Microbiology, State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China

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• Xu’ai Lin ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ; Med_bp@zju.edu.cn (JY); lxai122@163.com (XL)

  Affiliations Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China, Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China, Division of Basic Medical Microbiology, State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China

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• Jie Yan

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ; Med_bp@zju.edu.cn (JY); lxai122@163.com (XL)

  Affiliations Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China, Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China, Division of Basic Medical Microbiology, State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P.R. China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2054-6986

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