Uropathogenic Escherichia coli proliferate as a coccoid morphotype inside human host cells

• Alaska Pokhrel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alaska Pokhrel, Lachlan Chisholm

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

  * E-mail: Alaska.pokhrel@mq.edu.au (AP); Bill.soderstrom@uts.edu.au (BS)

  Affiliation Australian Institute for Microbiology and Infection, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Ultimo, Australia

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• Lachlan Chisholm ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alaska Pokhrel, Lachlan Chisholm

  Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Australian Institute for Microbiology and Infection, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Ultimo, Australia

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• Ariana Costas,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Australian Institute for Microbiology and Infection, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Ultimo, Australia, Institut Cochin, INSERM U1016, CNRS UMR 8104, Paris, France

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• Matthew Pittorino,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Australian Institute for Microbiology and Infection, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Ultimo, Australia

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• Iain G. Duggin,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Australian Institute for Microbiology and Infection, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Ultimo, Australia

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• Bill Söderström

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

  * E-mail: Alaska.pokhrel@mq.edu.au (AP); Bill.soderstrom@uts.edu.au (BS)

  Affiliation Australian Institute for Microbiology and Infection, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Ultimo, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9266-5322

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