Amino acid signatures in the HLA class II peptide-binding region associated with protection/susceptibility to the severe West Nile Virus disease

• Constantina A. Sarri,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

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• Georgios E. Papadopoulos,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

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• Anna Papa,

  Roles Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation 1st Microbiological Laboratory, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

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• Athanasios Tsakris,

  Roles Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

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• Danai Pervanidou,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (HCDCP), Athens, Greece

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• Agoritsa Baka,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (HCDCP), Athens, Greece

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• Constantina Politis,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Hellenic coordinating Hemovigilance Center of HCDCP, Athens, Greece

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• Charalambos Billinis,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Thessaly, Karditsa, Greece

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• Christos Hadjichristodoulou,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

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• Zissis Mamuris ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zmamur@bio.uth.gr

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6868-8927

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• MALWEST project

  ¶Membership of the MALWEST project is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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