SARS-CoV-2-specific immunoglobulin Y antibodies are protective in infected mice

• Sherif A. El-Kafrawy ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sherif A. El-Kafrawy, Aymn T. Abbas, Stanley Perlman, Alimuddin Zumla, Esam I. Azhar

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

  ¶‡ These authors joint first authors on this work.

  Affiliations Special Infectious Agents Unit-BSL3, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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• Abby Odle ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors joint first authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

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• Aymn T. Abbas ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sherif A. El-Kafrawy, Aymn T. Abbas, Stanley Perlman, Alimuddin Zumla, Esam I. Azhar

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

  * E-mail: atabdalhadi@kau.edu.sa (ATA); eazhar@kau.edu.sa (EIA)

  ¶‡ These authors joint first authors on this work.

  Affiliations Special Infectious Agents Unit-BSL3, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Biotechnology Research Laboratories, Gastroenterology, Surgery Centre, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

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• Ahmed M. Hassan,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Special Infectious Agents Unit-BSL3, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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• Umama A. Abdel-dayem,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Animal Facility Unit, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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• Arooj K. Qureshi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Special Infectious Agents Unit-BSL3, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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• Lok-Yin Roy Wong,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

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• Jian Zheng,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

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• David K. Meyerholz,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

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• Stanley Perlman ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sherif A. El-Kafrawy, Aymn T. Abbas, Stanley Perlman, Alimuddin Zumla, Esam I. Azhar

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

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• Alimuddin Zumla ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sherif A. El-Kafrawy, Aymn T. Abbas, Stanley Perlman, Alimuddin Zumla, Esam I. Azhar

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Infection, Division of Infection and Immunity, Centre for Clinical Microbiology, University College London, London, United Kingdom, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, University College London Hospitals, London, United Kingdom

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• Esam I. Azhar

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sherif A. El-Kafrawy, Aymn T. Abbas, Stanley Perlman, Alimuddin Zumla, Esam I. Azhar

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

  * E-mail: atabdalhadi@kau.edu.sa (ATA); eazhar@kau.edu.sa (EIA)

  Affiliations Special Infectious Agents Unit-BSL3, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1736-181X

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