A Potential New Pathway for Staphylococcus aureus Dissemination: The Silent Survival of S. aureus Phagocytosed by Human Monocyte-Derived Macrophages

• Malgorzata Kubica ,

  *To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: staphaureus@gmail.com (MK); kaniajoanna@gmail.com (JK)

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

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• Krzysztof Guzik,

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

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• Joanna Koziel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joanna Koziel, Jan Potempa

  *To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: staphaureus@gmail.com (MK); kaniajoanna@gmail.com (JK)

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

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• Miroslaw Zarebski,

  Affiliation Department of Cell Biophysics, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

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• Walter Richter,

  Affiliation Center for Electron Microscopy of the Medical Faculty, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Jena, Germany

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• Barbara Gajkowska,

  Affiliation Department of Cell Ultrastructure, Medical Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

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• Anna Golda,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

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• Agnieszka Maciag-Gudowska,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

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• Klaudia Brix,

  Affiliation School of Engineering and Science, Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany

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• Les Shaw,

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

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• Timothy Foster,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Moyne Institute of Preventive Medicine, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

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• Jan Potempa

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joanna Koziel, Jan Potempa

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

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