Niclosamide-loaded nanoparticles disrupt Candida biofilms and protect mice from mucosal candidiasis

• Yogesh Sutar ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  ¶‡ Equal authorship.

  Affiliations Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy, University of Hawai’i at Hilo, Hilo, Hawaii, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, R.K. Coit College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

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• Sunna Nabeela ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization

  ¶‡ Equal authorship.

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Disease, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America

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• Shakti Singh,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Disease, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America

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• Abdullah Alqarihi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Disease, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America

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• Norma Solis,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Disease, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America

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• Teklegiorgis Ghebremariam,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Disease, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America

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• Scott Filler,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Disease, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America

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• Ashraf S. Ibrahim,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Disease, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Abhijit Date ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: adate@pharmacy.arizona.edu (AD); puppuluri@lundquist.org (PU)

  Affiliations Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy, University of Hawai’i at Hilo, Hilo, Hawaii, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, R.K. Coit College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

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• Priya Uppuluri

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

  * E-mail: adate@pharmacy.arizona.edu (AD); puppuluri@lundquist.org (PU)

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Disease, The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5889-054X

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