Leptospiral dissemination is restrained by liver macrophages through Clec4d-driven capture via C/EBPβ activation

• Xi Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xi Chen, Xin Liu

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

  Affiliation Key Laboratory for Zoonosis Research, Ministry of Education, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun, People’s Republic of China

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• Xin Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xi Chen, Xin Liu

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

  Affiliation Key Laboratory for Zoonosis Research, Ministry of Education, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun, People’s Republic of China

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• Jiuxi Liu,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation

  Affiliation Key Laboratory for Zoonosis Research, Ministry of Education, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun, People’s Republic of China

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• Haixin Huang,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Key Laboratory for Zoonosis Research, Ministry of Education, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun, People’s Republic of China

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• Wenlong Zhang ,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition

  * E-mail: zwenlong123@126.com (WZ); xiexf@jlu.edu.cn (XX); ygcao82@jlu.edu.cn (YC)

  Affiliation Key Laboratory for Zoonosis Research, Ministry of Education, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun, People’s Republic of China

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• Xufeng Xie ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zwenlong123@126.com (WZ); xiexf@jlu.edu.cn (XX); ygcao82@jlu.edu.cn (YC)

  Affiliation Key Laboratory for Zoonosis Research, Ministry of Education, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun, People’s Republic of China

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• Yongguo Cao

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zwenlong123@126.com (WZ); xiexf@jlu.edu.cn (XX); ygcao82@jlu.edu.cn (YC)

  Affiliations Key Laboratory for Zoonosis Research, Ministry of Education, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun, People’s Republic of China, Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun, People’s Republic of China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9533-7516

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