De novo pyrimidine synthesis is necessary for intestinal colonization of Salmonella Typhimurium in chicks

• Hee-Jeong Yang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbial and Molecular Pathogenesis, College of Medicine, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, Bryan, TX, United States of America

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• Lydia Bogomolnaya,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbial and Molecular Pathogenesis, College of Medicine, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, Bryan, TX, United States of America, Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia

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• Michael McClelland,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California, Irvine, CA, United States of America

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• Helene Andrews-Polymenis

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

  * E-mail: handrews@medicine.tamhsc.edu

  Affiliation Department of Microbial and Molecular Pathogenesis, College of Medicine, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, Bryan, TX, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1818-1335

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