Cooperation between Apoptotic and Viable Metacyclics Enhances the Pathogenesis of Leishmaniasis

• João Luiz Mendes Wanderley,

  Affiliations Experimental Medicine Division, National Cancer Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Morphological Sciences Program, Biomedical Sciences Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Lucia Helena Pinto da Silva,

  Affiliations Experimental Medicine Division, National Cancer Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Department of Microbiology and Veterinary Immunology, Veterinary Institute, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Poliana Deolindo,

  Affiliations Experimental Medicine Division, National Cancer Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Lynn Soong,

  Affiliation Departments of Microbiology and Immunology and of Pathology, Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Sealy Center for Vaccine Development, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Valéria Matos Borges,

  Affiliation Gonçalo Muniz Research Center, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

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• Deboraci Brito Prates,

  Affiliation Gonçalo Muniz Research Center, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

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• Ana Paula Almeida de Souza,

  Affiliation Gonçalo Muniz Research Center, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

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• Aldina Barral,

  Affiliation Gonçalo Muniz Research Center, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

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• José Mario de Freitas Balanco,

  Affiliation Parasitology Department, Biomedical Sciences Institute, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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• Michelle Tanny Cunha do Nascimento,

  Affiliation Immunology Department, Microbiology Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Elvira Maria Saraiva,

  Affiliation Immunology Department, Microbiology Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Marcello André Barcinski

  * E-mail: barcinsk@icb.usp.br

  Affiliations Experimental Medicine Division, National Cancer Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Parasitology Department, Biomedical Sciences Institute, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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