Schistosoma mansoni infection induces plasmablast and plasma cell death in the bone marrow and accelerates the decline of host vaccine responses

• Fungai Musaigwa,

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

  Affiliations Division of Immunology, Health Science Faculty, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Immunology of Infectious Diseases Unit, South African Medical Research Centre, Cape Town, South Africa, Cape Town Component, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Cape Town, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0216-0385

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• Severin Donald Kamdem,

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

  Affiliations Division of Immunology, Health Science Faculty, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Immunology of Infectious Diseases Unit, South African Medical Research Centre, Cape Town, South Africa, Cape Town Component, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Cape Town, South Africa, Division of Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Wellcome Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa and Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0183-8078

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• Thabo Mpotje,

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

  Affiliations Division of Immunology, Health Science Faculty, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Immunology of Infectious Diseases Unit, South African Medical Research Centre, Cape Town, South Africa, Cape Town Component, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Cape Town, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5462-6648

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• Paballo Mosala ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Paballo Mosala, Nada Abdel Aziz

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Division of Immunology, Health Science Faculty, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Immunology of Infectious Diseases Unit, South African Medical Research Centre, Cape Town, South Africa, Cape Town Component, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Nada Abdel Aziz ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Paballo Mosala, Nada Abdel Aziz

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Division of Immunology, Health Science Faculty, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Immunology of Infectious Diseases Unit, South African Medical Research Centre, Cape Town, South Africa, Cape Town Component, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Cape Town, South Africa, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

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• De’Broski R. Herbert,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2449-5365

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• Frank Brombacher,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Division of Immunology, Health Science Faculty, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Immunology of Infectious Diseases Unit, South African Medical Research Centre, Cape Town, South Africa, Cape Town Component, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Cape Town, South Africa, Wellcome Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa and Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Justin Komguep Nono

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

  * E-mail: Justkoms@yahoo.fr

  Affiliations Division of Immunology, Health Science Faculty, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Immunology of Infectious Diseases Unit, South African Medical Research Centre, Cape Town, South Africa, Laboratory of ImmunoBiology and Helminth Infections, Institute of Medical Research and Medicinal Plant Studies, Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation, Yaoundé, Cameroon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6153-9729

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