A longitudinal study of plasma BAFF levels in mothers and their infants in Uganda, and correlations with subsets of B cells

• Caroline Rönnberg ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Caroline Rönnberg, Allan Lugaajju

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Tumor, and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine Solna, and Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Allan Lugaajju ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Caroline Rönnberg, Allan Lugaajju

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

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Tumor, and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Anna Nyman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden

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• Ulf Hammar,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Matteo Bottai,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Maximilian Julius Lautenbach,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine Solna, and Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Christopher Sundling,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine Solna, and Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Fred Kironde,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  Affiliations Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Habib Medical School, Islamic University in Uganda (IUIU), Mbale, Uganda

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• Kristina E. M. Persson

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kristina.persson@med.lu.se

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2661-3115

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