Toxin-neutralizing antibodies elicited by naturally acquired cutaneous anthrax are elevated following severe disease and appear to target conformational epitopes

• Eric K. Dumas,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Hayati Demiraslan,

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

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey

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• Rebecca J. Ingram,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Infection and Immunity, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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• Rebecca M. Sparks,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Emily Muns,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Adriana Zamora,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Jason Larabee,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Lori Garman,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Jimmy D. Ballard,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Geert-Jan Boons,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Complex Carbohydrate Research Center and Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences and Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Judith A. James,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America, Departments of Medicine and Pathology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Uner Kayabas,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul Arel University, Istanbul, Turkey

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Inonu University, Malatya, Turkey

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5323-0796

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• Mehmet Doganay,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3922-4901

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• A. Darise Farris

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: darise-farris@omrf.org

  Affiliations Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3009-2017

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