Streptococcus pyogenes pharyngitis elicits diverse antibody responses to key vaccine antigens influenced by the imprint of past infections.

<p>Here you will find the raw data (RawData.RData) and code (CHIVAS_SEROLOGY_Code.Rmd, an R Markdown file) for generating the analysis and figures for the following publication:</p> <p><strong><em>Streptococcus pyogenes</em> pharyngitis elicits diverse antibody responses to key vaccine antigens influenced by the imprint of past infections.</strong></p> <p>Joshua Osowicki1,2,3 #, Hannah R Frost1 #, Kristy I Azzopardi1, Alana L Whitcombe4, Reuben McGregor4, Lauren H. Carlton4, Ciara Baker1, Loraine Fabri1,5,6, Manisha Pandey7, Michael F Good7, Jonathan R. Carapetis8,9,10, Mark J Walker11,12,13, Pierre R Smeesters1,2,5,6, Paul V Licciardi2,14, Nicole J Moreland4 *, Danika L Hill15 *, Andrew C Steer1,2,3 *</p> <p>Provided in the RData file are the following items:&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Dataframes:&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>"outcome" : clinical variables associated with human challenge for each participant</p> <p>"data" : ELISA and functional antibody responses for human challenge participants. Each timepoint and isotype for each antigen as seperate column)</p> <p>"data_long": Data equivalent to "data" file but in long format, i.e. One column for each antigen, timepoint and isotype as factors.&nbsp;</p> <p>"data.melt" : &nbsp;Data equivalent to "data" file but in longer format , i.e. timepoint, isotype and antigen as factors, 'value' as ELISA AU.&nbsp;</p> <p>"luminex" : IgG responses to 6 antigens analysed by luminex bead-based assay in human challenge participants.</p> <p>"luminex.children" : IgG responses to 6 antigen analysed by luminex bead-based assay in children</p> <p><strong>Vectors:</strong></p> <p>"pharyngitis" : participant "id" for the 19 individuals that developed pharyngitis.&nbsp;</p> <p>"Antigen.Order" : relates to "Main" antigen classification used in Figure 2</p> <p>'additional" : relates to "Additional &nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Function:&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>"custom_theme" : used as a theme when using ggplot to graph.&nbsp;</p> <p>Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape were used to generate the final image files for publication, with some graph editing to axes labels, font size, adding p-values etc.&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><em><strong>Additional files:&nbsp;</strong></em></p> <p>&nbsp;3 .csv files have been included for download</p> <p>"ELISA_data_wide_format.csv", a wide format data table of 25 human challenge individuals and 219 variables. Equivalent to the 'data' dataframe in the RData file</p> <p>"CHIVAS_luminex.csv", a long format data table of 25 human challenge participants at 1 week, 1 month, and 3 months. Equivalent to the 'luminex' dataframe in the RData file.&nbsp;</p> <p>"Luminex.children.csv", a datatable of 6 luminex variables for 39 children (healthy and post pharyngitis). Equivalent to the 'luminex.children' dataframe in the RData file.&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>