Characterization of an immunocompetent, young adult mouse model for studying chikungunya virus neuroinvasion and central nervous system infection

• Alyssa M. Lantz ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alyssa M. Lantz, Freedom M. Green

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

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• Freedom M. Green ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alyssa M. Lantz, Freedom M. Green

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, South Texas Medical Scientist Training Program, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Genetics, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

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• Amanda J. Cowan,

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

  Affiliation Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

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• Kestrel A. Miller,

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

  Affiliation Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

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• Reina A. Saldivar,

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

  Affiliation Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

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• Elizabeth J. Anderson,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Comparative Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Ramya S. Barre,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Genetics, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

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• Vinay Shivanna,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

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• William B. Klimstra,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Vaccine Research, Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Luis Martinez-Sobrido,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

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• Victoria K. Baxter

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

  * E-mail: vbaxter@txbiomed.org

  Affiliation Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0916-360X

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