Immunization with the pan-fungal vaccine, NXT-2a, reduces fungal burden following serial intravaginal challenges with C. albicans in a non-human primate model of experimental vulvovaginal candidiasis

• Daniel A. Wychrij,

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

  Affiliation Center for Vaccines and Immunology, Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5702-9662

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• Whitney Rabacal,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Vaccines and Immunology, Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Taylor I. Chapman,

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

  Affiliation Center for Vaccines and Immunology, Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Hubertine M.E. Willems,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing, Methodology

  Affiliation Center for Vaccines and Immunology, Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Casey Ellen Pac,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Vaccines and Immunology, Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1206-4147

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• Kwadwo O. Oworae,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Vaccines and Immunology, Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6701-9465

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• Karen A. Norris

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kanorris@uga.edu

  Affiliation Center for Vaccines and Immunology, Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0007-3567-6261

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