The route of infection with Leptospira interrogans serovar Copenhageni affects the kinetics of bacterial dissemination and kidney colonization

• Nisha Nair,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Mariana Soares Guedes,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Immuno Technologies, Inc, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5549-0620

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• Catherine Werts,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Biology and Genetics of the Bacterial Cell Wall Unit, Paris, France

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• Maria Gomes-Solecki

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

  * E-mail: mgomesso@uthsc.edu

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Immuno Technologies, Inc, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3715-4543

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