Immunoglobulin G subclass switching impacts sensitivity of an immunoassay targeting Francisella tularensis lipopolysaccharide

• Teerapat Nualnoi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Prince of Songkla University, Songkla, Thailand

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

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• Adam Kirosingh,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

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• Kaitlin Basallo,

  Roles Investigation

  Current address: InBios International Inc., Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

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• Derrick Hau,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

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• Marcellene A. Gates-Hollingsworth,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

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• Peter Thorkildson,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

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• Reva B. Crump,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Current address: Department of Biology, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

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• Dana E. Reed,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

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• Sujata Pandit,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

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• David P. AuCoin

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

  * E-mail: daucoin@med.unr.edu

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2197-8177

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