Infectious bronchitis corona virus establishes productive infection in avian macrophages interfering with selected antimicrobial functions

• Aruna Amarasinghe,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Ecosystem and Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Health Research Innovation Center 2C53, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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• Mohamed Sarjoon Abdul-Cader,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Ecosystem and Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Health Research Innovation Center 2C53, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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• Sadiya Nazir,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Ecosystem and Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Health Research Innovation Center 2C53, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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• Upasama De Silva Senapathi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Ecosystem and Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Health Research Innovation Center 2C53, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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• Frank van der Meer,

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

  Affiliation Department of Ecosystem and Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Health Research Innovation Center 2C53, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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• Susan Catherine Cork,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecosystem and Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Health Research Innovation Center 2C53, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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• Susantha Gomis,

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

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathology, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatoon, Canada

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• Mohamed Faizal Abdul-Careem

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: faizal.abdulcareem@ucalgary.ca

  Affiliation Department of Ecosystem and Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Health Research Innovation Center 2C53, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9974-7600

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