CD4 T-cell depletion prevents Lassa fever associated hearing loss in the mouse model

• Junki Maruyama ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Junki Maruyama, Rachel A. Reyna

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0088-4793

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• Rachel A. Reyna ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Junki Maruyama, Rachel A. Reyna

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Megumi Kishimoto-Urata,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Shinji Urata,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• John T. Manning,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Nantian Harsell,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Rebecca Cook,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Cheng Huang,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Janko Nikolich-Zugich,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Immunobiology and the University of Arizona Center on Aging, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

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• Tomoko Makishima ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tomakishi@utmb.edu (TM); slpaessl@utmb.edu (SP)

  ¶‡ TM and SP also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3397-6395

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• Slobodan Paessler

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tomakishi@utmb.edu (TM); slpaessl@utmb.edu (SP)

  ¶‡ TM and SP also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2213-9551

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