Roles of Putative Type II Secretion and Type IV Pilus Systems in the Virulence of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli

• Ritwij Kulkarni,

  Current address: Department of Microbiology, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

  Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

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• Bijaya K. Dhakal,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Division of Cell Biology and Immunology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

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• E. Susan Slechta,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Division of Cell Biology and Immunology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

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• Zachary Kurtz,

  Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

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• Matthew A. Mulvey,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Division of Cell Biology and Immunology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

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• David G. Thanassi

  * E-mail: David.Thanassi@stonybrook.edu

  Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

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