Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae serotype K1 clinical isolates form robust biofilms at the air-liquid interface

• Meritxell Cubero,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), Barcelona, Spain, Research Network for Respiratory Diseases (CIBERES), ISCIII, Madrid, Spain

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• Sara Marti ,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: c.ardanuy@bellvitgehospital.cat (CA); smartinm@bellvitgehospital.cat (SM)

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), Barcelona, Spain, Research Network for Respiratory Diseases (CIBERES), ISCIII, Madrid, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0405-2305

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• Mª Ángeles Domínguez,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), Barcelona, Spain, Spanish Network for Research in Infectious Diseases (REIPI), Barcelona, Spain, Departamento de Patología y terapéutica experimental, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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• Aida González-Díaz,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), Barcelona, Spain, Research Network for Respiratory Diseases (CIBERES), ISCIII, Madrid, Spain

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• Dàmaris Berbel,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), Barcelona, Spain, Research Network for Respiratory Diseases (CIBERES), ISCIII, Madrid, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3689-3360

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• Carmen Ardanuy

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: c.ardanuy@bellvitgehospital.cat (CA); smartinm@bellvitgehospital.cat (SM)

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), Barcelona, Spain, Research Network for Respiratory Diseases (CIBERES), ISCIII, Madrid, Spain, Departamento de Patología y terapéutica experimental, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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