CD11c-expressing Ly6C⁺CCR2⁺ monocytes constitute a reservoir for efficient Leishmania proliferation and cell-to-cell transmission

• Sandrina Heyde,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institute of Molecular and Clinical Immunology, Health Campus Immunology Infectiology and Inflammation (GC-I3), Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany

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• Lars Philipsen,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institute of Molecular and Clinical Immunology, Health Campus Immunology Infectiology and Inflammation (GC-I3), Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5112-495X

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• Pauline Formaglio,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institute of Molecular and Clinical Immunology, Health Campus Immunology Infectiology and Inflammation (GC-I3), Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9612-3157

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• Yan Fu,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Institute of Molecular and Clinical Immunology, Health Campus Immunology Infectiology and Inflammation (GC-I3), Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4183-5875

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• Iris Baars,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Institute of Molecular and Clinical Immunology, Health Campus Immunology Infectiology and Inflammation (GC-I3), Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany

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• Guido Höbbel,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Institute of Molecular and Clinical Immunology, Health Campus Immunology Infectiology and Inflammation (GC-I3), Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany

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• Corinna L. Kleinholz,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Institute of Molecular and Clinical Immunology, Health Campus Immunology Infectiology and Inflammation (GC-I3), Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany

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• Elena A. Seiß,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Institute of Molecular and Clinical Immunology, Health Campus Immunology Infectiology and Inflammation (GC-I3), Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany

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• Juliane Stettin,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Institute of Molecular and Clinical Immunology, Health Campus Immunology Infectiology and Inflammation (GC-I3), Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany

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• Patricia Gintschel,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation Institute of Molecular and Clinical Immunology, Health Campus Immunology Infectiology and Inflammation (GC-I3), Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany

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• Anne Dudeck,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Molecular and Clinical Immunology, Health Campus Immunology Infectiology and Inflammation (GC-I3), Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany

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• Philippe Bousso,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Dynamics of Immune Responses Unit, Department of Immunology, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6362-561X

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• Burkhart Schraven,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Molecular and Clinical Immunology, Health Campus Immunology Infectiology and Inflammation (GC-I3), Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany, Department of Immune Control, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Inhoffenstrasse 7, Braunschweig, Germany

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• Andreas J. Müller

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

  * E-mail: andreas.mueller@med.ovgu.de

  Affiliations Institute of Molecular and Clinical Immunology, Health Campus Immunology Infectiology and Inflammation (GC-I3), Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany, Research Group Intravital Microscopy of Infection and Immunity, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Inhoffenstrasse 7, Braunschweig, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0281-6383

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