Zika virus tropism during early infection of the testicular interstitium and its role in viral pathogenesis in the testes

• Konstantin A. Tsetsarkin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Konstantin A. Tsetsarkin, Joshua A. Acklin

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

  Affiliation Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Joshua A. Acklin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Konstantin A. Tsetsarkin, Joshua A. Acklin

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

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Guangping Liu,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Heather Kenney,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Natalia L. Teterina,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Alexander G. Pletnev ,

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

  * E-mail: apletnev@niaid.nih.gov (AGP); jean.lim@mssm.edu (JKL)

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Jean K. Lim

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

  * E-mail: apletnev@niaid.nih.gov (AGP); jean.lim@mssm.edu (JKL)

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4572-6417

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