Capsular polysaccharide of Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. capri contributes to phenotypic diversity promoting distinctive immune responses

• Thatcha Yimthin,

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

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathology, Institute of Veterinary Bacteriology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences (GCB), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Marilou Bourgeon,

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

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathology, Institute of Veterinary Bacteriology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Jing Zhang,

  Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathology, Institute of Veterinary Bacteriology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Lukas Eggerschwiler,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Contracts Animals Group, Agroscope, Posieux, Switzerland

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• Raphael Siegenthaler,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Contracts Animals Group, Agroscope, Posieux, Switzerland

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• Elise Schieck,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Nairobi, Kenya

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• Sergi Torres-Puig,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathology, Institute of Veterinary Bacteriology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Nicolas Ruggli,

  Roles Writing – review & editing, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathobiology, Institute of Virology and Immunology IVI, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Mittelhäusern, Switzerland

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• Thomas Démoulins ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  ¶☯ Equal supervision.

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathology, Institute of Veterinary Bacteriology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Joerg Jores

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

  * E-mail: joerg.jores@unibe.ch

  ¶☯ Equal supervision.

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathology, Institute of Veterinary Bacteriology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Multidisciplinary Center for Infectious Diseases (MCID), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3790-5746

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