Virulence genes and subclone status as markers of experimental virulence in a murine sepsis model among Escherichia coli sequence type 131 clinical isolates from Spain

• Irene Merino,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal-Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria (IRYCIS), Madrid, Spain, Spanish Network for Research in Infectious Diseases (REIPI), Madrid, Spain

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• Stephen B. Porter,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Minneapolis Veterans Health Care System, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

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• Brian D. Johnston,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

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• Connie Clabots,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Minneapolis Veterans Health Care System, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

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• Evelyn Shaw,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Spanish Network for Research in Infectious Diseases (REIPI), Madrid, Spain, Servicio de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge-IDIBELL, Barcelona, Spain

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• Juan Pablo Horcajada,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hospital del Mar-Medical Research Institute of Hospital del Mar (IMIM)-CEXS Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

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• Rafael Cantón,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal-Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria (IRYCIS), Madrid, Spain, Spanish Network for Research in Infectious Diseases (REIPI), Madrid, Spain

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• Patricia Ruiz-Garbajosa ,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: pruizg@salud.madrid.org

  Affiliations Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal-Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria (IRYCIS), Madrid, Spain, Spanish Network for Research in Infectious Diseases (REIPI), Madrid, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4795-0217

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• James R. Johnson,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Minneapolis Veterans Health Care System, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

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• for the ITUBRAS-GEIH group

  ¶Membership of the ITU-BRAS group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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