ves1α genes expression is the major determinant of Babesia bovis-infected erythrocytes cytoadhesion to endothelial cells

• Hassan Hakimi ,

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

  * E-mail: hhakimi@cvm.tamu.edu (HH); masada@obihiro.ac.jp (MA)

  Affiliations National Research Center for Protozoan Diseases, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6678-7393

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• Junya Yamagishi,

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

  Affiliations Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Global Station for Zoonosis Control, GI-CoRE, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

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• Miako Sakaguchi,

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

  Affiliation Central Laboratory, Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN), Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

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• Atefeh Fathi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Research Center for Protozoan Diseases, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Jae Seung Lee,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Research Center for Protozoan Diseases, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Guilherme G. Verocai,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Shin-ichiro Kawazu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Research Center for Protozoan Diseases, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Masahito Asada

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hhakimi@cvm.tamu.edu (HH); masada@obihiro.ac.jp (MA)

  Affiliation National Research Center for Protozoan Diseases, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0042-6856

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