Comparative transcriptome profiling of virulent and non-virulent Trypanosoma cruzi underlines the role of surface proteins during infection

• A. Trey Belew ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: A. Trey Belew, Caroline Junqueira, Gabriela F. Rodrigues-Luiz

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics and Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

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• Caroline Junqueira ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: A. Trey Belew, Caroline Junqueira, Gabriela F. Rodrigues-Luiz

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

  Affiliation Centro de Pesquisas Rene Rachou, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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• Gabriela F. Rodrigues-Luiz ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: A. Trey Belew, Caroline Junqueira, Gabriela F. Rodrigues-Luiz

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Departamento de Parasitologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3838-1008

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• Bruna M. Valente,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Departamento de Bioquímica e Imunologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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• Antonio Edson R. Oliveira,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Departamento de Bioquímica e Imunologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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• Rafael B. Polidoro,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Departmento de Microbiologia, Imunologia e Parasitologia, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2982-0072

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• Luciana W. Zuccherato,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Departamento de Bioquímica e Imunologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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• Daniella C. Bartholomeu,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation

  Affiliation Departamento de Parasitologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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• Sergio Schenkman,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departmento de Microbiologia, Imunologia e Parasitologia, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9353-8480

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• Ricardo T. Gazzinelli,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centro de Pesquisas Rene Rachou, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, Departamento de Bioquímica e Imunologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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• Barbara A. Burleigh,

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

  Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Najib M. El-Sayed ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: santuzat@ufmg.br (SMRT); elsayed@umd.edu (NES)

  Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics and Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7970-3312

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• Santuza M. R. Teixeira

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: santuzat@ufmg.br (SMRT); elsayed@umd.edu (NES)

  Affiliation Departamento de Bioquímica e Imunologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2588-2842

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