Interactions between B cells and T follicular regulatory cells enhance susceptibility to Brucella infection independent of the anti-Brucella humoral response

• Alexis S. Dadelahi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: ARUP Institute for Clinical and Experimental Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

  Affiliations Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Laboratory for Infectious Disease Research, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

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• Mostafa F. N. Abushahba,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Laboratory for Infectious Disease Research, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Zoonoses, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

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• Bárbara Ponzilacqua-Silva,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Laboratory for Infectious Disease Research, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

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• Catherine A. Chambers,

  Roles Investigation

  Current address: University Research Animal Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

  Affiliations Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Laboratory for Infectious Disease Research, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

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• Charles R. Moley,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Laboratory for Infectious Disease Research, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

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• Carolyn A. Lacey,

  Roles Investigation

  Current address: AbbVie, Chicago, Illinois

  Affiliations Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Laboratory for Infectious Disease Research, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

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• Alexander L. Dent,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana

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• Jerod A. Skyberg

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: skybergj@missouri.edu

  Affiliations Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Laboratory for Infectious Disease Research, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2337-908X

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