The Escherichia coli O157:H7 carbon starvation-inducible lipoprotein Slp contributes to initial adherence in vitro via the human polymeric immunoglobulin receptor

• Christine Fedorchuk,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Indira T. Kudva,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Food Safety and Enteric Pathogens Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, Agricultural Research Service, U S Department of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6750-7867

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• Subhashinie Kariyawasam

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

  * E-mail: skariyawasam@ufl.edu

  Affiliations Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Comparative, Diagnostic, and Population Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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