An Fc-silent OspA monoclonal antibody passively protects mice from tick and intradermal Borrelia burgdorferi challenge

• Daniel Palmer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel Palmer, David J. Vance, Nicholas J. Mantis

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Wadsworth Center, New York Department of Health, Division of Infectious Disease, Albany, New York, United States of America

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• Atieh Shemshadian,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Albany, Albany, New York, United States of America

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• Katherine Berman,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Wadsworth Center, New York Department of Health, Division of Infectious Disease, Albany, New York, United States of America

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• Ariana Nobles,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Albany, Albany, New York, United States of America

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• Graham G. Willsey,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Wadsworth Center, New York Department of Health, Division of Infectious Disease, Albany, New York, United States of America

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• Carol Lyn Piazza,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Wadsworth Center, New York Department of Health, Division of Infectious Disease, Albany, New York, United States of America

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• Grace Freeman-Gallant,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Wadsworth Center, New York Department of Health, Division of Infectious Disease, Albany, New York, United States of America

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• Michael J. Rudolph,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation New York Structural Biology Center, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Jeff Bourgeois,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Deparrment of Microbiology, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Linden Hu,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Deparrment of Microbiology, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• David J. Vance ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel Palmer, David J. Vance, Nicholas J. Mantis

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Wadsworth Center, New York Department of Health, Division of Infectious Disease, Albany, New York, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Albany, Albany, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9913-7722

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• Nicholas J. Mantis

  Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel Palmer, David J. Vance, Nicholas J. Mantis

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

  * E-mail: nicholas.mantis@health.ny.gov

  Affiliations Wadsworth Center, New York Department of Health, Division of Infectious Disease, Albany, New York, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Albany, Albany, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5083-8640

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