The Flagellum of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Is Required for Resistance to Clearance by Surfactant Protein A

• Shiping Zhang,

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

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• Francis X. McCormack,

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

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• Roger C. Levesque,

  Affiliation Centre de Recherche sur la Fonction Structure et Ingenierie des Proteines, Pavillon Charles-Eugene Marchand et Faculte de Medecine, Universite Laval, Ste-Foy, Quebec, Canada

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• George A. O'Toole,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

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• Gee W. Lau

  *To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: geelau@uiuc.edu

  Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

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