The role of dermis resident macrophages and their interaction with neutrophils in the early establishment of Leishmania major infection transmitted by sand fly bite

• Mariana M. Chaves,

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

  Affiliation Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, Unites States of America

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• Sang Hun Lee ,

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

  * E-mail: leesh2@nih.gov (SHL); dsacks@nih.gov (DS)

  Affiliation Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, Unites States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5167-0077

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• Olena Kamenyeva,

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

  Affiliation Biological Imaging Section, Research Technology Branch, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, Unites States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6541-5616

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• Kashinath Ghosh,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, Unites States of America

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• Nathan C. Peters,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Current address: Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases, Department of Microbiology Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

  Affiliation Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, Unites States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2548-9581

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• David Sacks

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

  * E-mail: leesh2@nih.gov (SHL); dsacks@nih.gov (DS)

  Affiliation Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, Unites States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7557-3124

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