Recent thymic emigrants preferentially undergo memory inflation after persistent infection

• Zachary T. Hilt,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

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• Arnold Reynaldi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Megan Steinhilber,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

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• Shide Zhang,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

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• Samantha P. Wesnak,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

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• Norah L. Smith,

  Roles Supervision, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

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• Miles P. Davenport,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Brian D. Rudd

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

  * E-mail: bdr54@cornell.edu

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9742-8358

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