Single-cell transcriptomics unveils skin cell specific antifungal immune responses and IL-1Ra- IL-1R immune evasion strategies of emerging fungal pathogen Candida auris

• Abishek Balakumar ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Abishek Balakumar, Diprasom Das

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Comparative Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

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• Diprasom Das ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Abishek Balakumar, Diprasom Das

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Comparative Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

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• Abhishek Datta,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Comparative Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

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• Abtar Mishra,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Comparative Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

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• Garrett Bryak,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Comparative Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

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• Shrihari M. Ganesh,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Comparative Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

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• Mihai G. Netea,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine and Radboud Center for Infectious Diseases, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, Department for Immunology and Metabolism, Life and Medical Sciences Institute (LIMES), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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• Vinod Kumar,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine and Radboud Center for Infectious Diseases, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, Department of Internal Medicine and Radboud Center for Infectious Diseases, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

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• Michail S. Lionakis,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Fungal Pathogenesis Section, Laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology, National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Devender Arora,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software

  Affiliation Bioinformatics Core, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

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• Jyothi Thimmapuram,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software

  Affiliation Bioinformatics Core, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

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• Shankar Thangamani

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

  * E-mail: sthangam@purdue.edu

  Affiliations Department of Comparative Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, Purdue Institute for Immunology, Inflammation and Infectious Diseases (PI4D), West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0031-2392

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