About the Authors
- Vinícius Silva Machado
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Affiliation Department of Population Medicine & Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
- Marcela Luccas de Souza Bicalho
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Affiliation Department of Population Medicine & Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
- Enoch Brandão de Souza Meira Junior
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Affiliation Department of Population Medicine & Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
- Rodolfo Rossi
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Affiliation Department of Population Medicine & Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
- Bruno Leonardo Ribeiro
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Affiliation Department of Population Medicine & Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
- Svetlana Lima
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Affiliation Department of Population Medicine & Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
- Thiago Santos
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Affiliation Department of Population Medicine & Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
- Arieli Kussler
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Affiliation Department of Population Medicine & Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
- Carla Foditsch
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Affiliation Department of Population Medicine & Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
- Erika Korzune Ganda
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Affiliation Department of Population Medicine & Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
- Georgios Oikonomou
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Affiliation Department of Population Medicine & Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
- Soon Hon Cheong
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Affiliation Department of Population Medicine & Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
- Robert Owen Gilbert
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Affiliation Department of Population Medicine & Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
- Rodrigo Carvalho Bicalho
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* E-mail: rcb28@cornell.edu
Affiliation Department of Population Medicine & Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
Competing Interests
Rodrigo Carvalho Bicalho, Robert Owen Gilbert, Marcela Luccas de Souza Bicalho, and Vinicius Silva Machado have a pending patent entitled “Vaccine for the prevention of uterine diseases” (Application number 61/731,333) on the vaccine technology described in this manuscript. This study was funded by Merck Animal Health. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: RCB VSM ROG SHC. Performed the experiments: VSM MLdSB EBdSM RR BLR SL TS AK CF EKG. Analyzed the data: RCB VSM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RCB. Wrote the paper: VSM RCB GO.