Distinct strategies of epithelial cell barrier disruption by Leptospira interrogans isolated from human patients in Okinawa, Japan

• Tetsuya Kakita ,

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

  * E-mail: kakitatt@pref.okinawa.lg.jp (TK); claudia@cs.u-ryukyu.ac.jp (CT)

  Affiliations Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Bacteriology, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan,, Research Center for Infectious Disease, Okinawa Prefectural Institute of Health and Environment

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8991-7397

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• Claudia Toma ,

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

  * E-mail: kakitatt@pref.okinawa.lg.jp (TK); claudia@cs.u-ryukyu.ac.jp (CT)

  Affiliation Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Bacteriology, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan,

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9852-1722

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• Isabel Sebastián,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Bacteriology, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan,

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• Hunter Barbee,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Bacteriology, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan,

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• Tetsu Yamashiro

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Bacteriology, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan,

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