Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum with an Artificially impaired TprK antigenic variation system is attenuated in the Rabbit model of syphilis

• Emily Romeis,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Nicole A. P. Lieberman,

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

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Barbara Molini,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Lauren C. Tantalo,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Benjamin Chung,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Quynh Phung,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Carlos Avendaño,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Anastassia Vorobieva,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology, VIB, Brussels, Belgium, Structural Biology Brussels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

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• Alexander L. Greninger,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Lorenzo Giacani

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: giacal@u.washington.edu

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3889-7274

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