Evidence for preexisting prion substrain diversity in a biologically cloned prion strain

• Tess Gunnels,

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

  Current address: Qinotto Inc., San Carlos, California, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

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• Ronald A. Shikiya,

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

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

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• Taylor C. York,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

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• Alyssa J. Block,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

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• Jason C. Bartz

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jbartz@creighton.edu

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4081-7886

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