B cells promote granulomatous inflammation during chronic Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in mice

• Yong Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yong Chen, Sushma Bharrhan

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

  Affiliation Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Sushma Bharrhan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yong Chen, Sushma Bharrhan

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Jiayong Xu,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Tarina Sharma,

  Roles Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Yanhua Wang,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

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• Padmini Salgame,

  Roles Formal analysis, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Jinghang Zhang,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

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• Kievershen Nargan,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation Africa Health Research Institute, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

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• Adrie J. C. Steyn,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization

  Affiliations Africa Health Research Institute, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Department of Microbiology, Centers for AIDS Research and Free Radical Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Paul J. Maglione,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• John Chan

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: jc2864@njms.rutgers.edu

  Affiliation Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4422-081X

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