Season and size of urban particulate matter differentially affect cytotoxicity and human immune responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis

• Srijata Sarkar,

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

  Affiliation Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Rutgers University School of Public Health, Piscataway, NJ, United States of America

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• César E. Rivas-Santiago,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Current address: National Council of Science and Technology (CONACyT), Catedras-CONACyT-University Autonomous of Zacatecas, Zacatecas. Mexico.

  Affiliation Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Rutgers University School of Public Health, Piscataway, NJ, United States of America

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• Olufunmilola A. Ibironke,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Rutgers University School of Public Health, Piscataway, NJ, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0227-0122

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• Claudia Carranza,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias, México City, México

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• Qingyu Meng,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Rutgers University School of Public Health, Piscataway, NJ, United States of America

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• Álvaro Osornio-Vargas,

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8287-7102

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• Junfeng Zhang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Duke Global Health Institute and Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States of America

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• Martha Torres,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias, México City, México

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• Judith C. Chow,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Division of Atmospheric Sciences, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, United States of America

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• John G. Watson,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Atmospheric Sciences, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, United States of America

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• Pamela Ohman-Strickland,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Rutgers University School of Public Health, Piscataway, NJ, United States of America

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• Stephan Schwander

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

  * E-mail: schwansk@sph.rutgers.edu

  Affiliations Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Rutgers University School of Public Health, Piscataway, NJ, United States of America, Department of Urban-Global Public Health, Rutgers University School of Public Health, Newark, NJ, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5836-0699

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