Circulating antibody-secreting cells are a biomarker for early diagnosis in patients with Lyme disease

• Natalie S. Haddad,

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

  Affiliation MicroB-plex, Inc., Atlanta, GA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1348-3094

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• Sophia Nozick,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation MicroB-plex, Inc., Atlanta, GA, United States of America

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• Shant Ohanian,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation MicroB-plex, Inc., Atlanta, GA, United States of America

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• Robert Smith,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Maine Medical Center, MaineHealth Institute for Research, Portland, ME, United States of America

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• Susan Elias,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Maine Medical Center, MaineHealth Institute for Research, Portland, ME, United States of America

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• Paul G. Auwaerter,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Sherrilyn and Ken Fisher Center for Environmental Infectious Diseases, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• F. Eun-Hyung Lee ,

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

  ¶‡ FEHL is co-senior author on this work.

  Affiliations MicroB-plex, Inc., Atlanta, GA, United States of America, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy & Immunology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

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• John L. Daiss

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

  * E-mail: jdaiss52@gmail.com

  Affiliation MicroB-plex, Inc., Atlanta, GA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9690-7701

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