Calcium sulfate beads made with antibacterial essential oil-water emulsions exhibit growth inhibition against Staphylococcus aureus in agar pour plates

• Allison N. Hawkins,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, Florida, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7305-4478

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• Sara J. Licea ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sara J. Licea, Sierra A. Sleeper

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, Florida, United States of America

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• Sierra A. Sleeper ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sara J. Licea, Sierra A. Sleeper

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, Florida, United States of America

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• Matthew C. Swearingen

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: swearingen.45@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, Florida, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0041-0128

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