BBK32 attenuates antibody-dependent complement-mediated killing of infectious Borreliella burgdorferi isolates

• Alexandra D. Powell-Pierce,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, College of Medicine, Texas A&M University, Bryan/College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Charles E. Booth, Jr.,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Payton G. Smith,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, College of Medicine, Texas A&M University, Bryan/College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Brittany L. Shapiro,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, College of Medicine, Texas A&M University, Bryan/College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Shannon S. Allen,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, College of Medicine, Texas A&M University, Bryan/College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Brandon L. Garcia ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jskare@tamu.edu (JTS); garciab@ksu.edu (BLG)

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

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• Jon T. Skare

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

  * E-mail: jskare@tamu.edu (JTS); garciab@ksu.edu (BLG)

  Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, College of Medicine, Texas A&M University, Bryan/College Station, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8378-7862

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