Adhesin genes and biofilm formation among pediatric Staphylococcus aureus isolates from implant-associated infections

• Catherine E. Foster ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: catherine.foster@bcm.edu

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Section of Infectious Diseases, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2657-039X

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• Melissa Kok,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Section of Infectious Diseases, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4635-4459

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• Anthony R. Flores,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Center for Antimicrobial Resistance and Microbial Genomics, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States of America

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• Charles G. Minard,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4631-6943

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• Ruth A. Luna,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Section of Pathology and Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, United States of America

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• Linda B. Lamberth,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Section of Infectious Diseases, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, United States of America

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• Sheldon L. Kaplan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Section of Infectious Diseases, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, United States of America

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• Kristina G. Hulten

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

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Section of Infectious Diseases, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, United States of America

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