Commensal Neisseria species share immune suppressive mechanisms with Neisseria gonorrhoeae

• Weiyan Zhu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America

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• Maria X. Cardenas-Alvarez,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3061-1518

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• Joshua Tomberg,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America

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• Marguerite B. Little,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America

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• Joseph A. Duncan ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: joseph_duncan@med.unc.edu (JAD); nicholas@med.unc.edu (RAN)

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America

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• Robert A. Nicholas

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: joseph_duncan@med.unc.edu (JAD); nicholas@med.unc.edu (RAN)

  Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2507-8974

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