Knockout of mlaA increases Escherichia coli virulence in a silkworm infection model

• Haruka Nasu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Haruka Nasu, Riko Shirakawa

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Kita-ku, Okayama, Japan

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• Riko Shirakawa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Haruka Nasu, Riko Shirakawa

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Kita-ku, Okayama, Japan

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• Kazuyuki Furuta,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Kita-ku, Okayama, Japan

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• Chikara Kaito

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ckaito@okayama-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Kita-ku, Okayama, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2895-3386

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