Borrelia burgdorferi adhere to blood vessels in the dura mater and are associated with increased meningeal T cells during murine disseminated borreliosis

• Ali Divan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States of America

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• Timothy Casselli,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States of America

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• S. Anand Narayanan,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Medical Physiology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Sanjib Mukherjee,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Medical Physiology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• David C. Zawieja,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Medical Physiology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• John A. Watt,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States of America

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• Catherine A. Brissette ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Catherine A. Brissette, M. Karen Newell-Rogers

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Catherine.brissette@med.und.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0792-1403

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• M. Karen Newell-Rogers

  Contributed equally to this work with: Catherine A. Brissette, M. Karen Newell-Rogers

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Trauma, Health & Hazards Center, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States of America

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