Endocervix exhibits greater susceptibility to HIV-1 infection compared to ectocervix following ex vivo exposure to Transmitted/Founder HIV-1 variants

• Robert Langat,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations KAVI-Institute of Clinical Research, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya, Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Outcomes and Precision Medicine Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States of America

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• Michael D. McRaven,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Ramon Lorenzo-Redondo,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Center for Pathogen Genomics and Microbial Evolution, Havey Institute for Global Health Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Teresia Muhomah,

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

  Affiliation KAVI-Institute of Clinical Research, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Ann M. Carias,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1305-254X

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• Muhammad Shoaib Arif,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Matrona Mbendo Akiso,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation KAVI-Institute of Clinical Research, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Marianne Mureithi,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations KAVI-Institute of Clinical Research, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Omu Anzala,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations KAVI-Institute of Clinical Research, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Jill Gilmour,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation IAVI Human Immunology Lab, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Sarah Joseph,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation IAVI Human Immunology Lab, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Thomas J. Hope

  Roles Supervision

  * E-mail: thope@northwestern.edu

  Affiliation Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7183-8319

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