Major role of iron uptake systems in the intrinsic extra-intestinal virulence of the genus Escherichia revealed by a genome-wide association study

• Marco Galardini ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mgala@bu.edu (MG); erick.denamur@inserm.fr (ED)

  Current address: Biological Design Center, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States of America

  Affiliation EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2018-8242

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• Olivier Clermont,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Université de Paris, IAME, UMR1137, INSERM, Paris, France

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• Alexandra Baron,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Université de Paris, IAME, UMR1137, INSERM, Paris, France

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• Bede Busby,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Genome Biology Unit, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3410-9998

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• Sara Dion,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Université de Paris, IAME, UMR1137, INSERM, Paris, France

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• Sören Schubert,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Max von Pettenkofer Institute of Hygiene and Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, LMU Munich, Germany

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• Pedro Beltrao,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2724-7703

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• Erick Denamur

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mgala@bu.edu (MG); erick.denamur@inserm.fr (ED)

  Affiliations Université de Paris, IAME, UMR1137, INSERM, Paris, France, AP-HP, Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire, Hôpital Bichat, Paris, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7860-1717

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