Ebola virus-mediated T-lymphocyte depletion is the result of an abortive infection

• Patrick Younan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Patrick Younan, Rodrigo I. Santos, Palaniappan Ramanathan

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

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Galveston National Laboratory, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Rodrigo I. Santos ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Patrick Younan, Rodrigo I. Santos, Palaniappan Ramanathan

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Galveston National Laboratory, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2548-1288

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• Palaniappan Ramanathan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Patrick Younan, Rodrigo I. Santos, Palaniappan Ramanathan

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Galveston National Laboratory, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8121-7647

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• Mathieu Iampietro,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Galveston National Laboratory, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Andrew Nishida,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Mukta Dutta,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Tatiana Ammosova,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8777-1032

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• Michelle Meyer,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Galveston National Laboratory, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Michael G. Katze,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, National Primate Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Vsevolod L. Popov,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Galveston National Laboratory, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Sergei Nekhai,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0744-7887

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• Alexander Bukreyev

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

  * E-mail: alexander.bukreyev@utmb.edu

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Galveston National Laboratory, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America, Department Microbiology & Immunology, the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0342-4824

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