Optimal dose of lactoferrin reduces the resilience of in vitro Staphylococcus aureus colonies

• Jagir R. Hussan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jagir R. Hussan, Stuart G. Irwin

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: r.jagir@auckland.ac.nz

  Affiliations Auckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland, Auckland, NZ, Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology, University of Auckland, Auckland, NZ

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8333-7869

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• Stuart G. Irwin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jagir R. Hussan, Stuart G. Irwin

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

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology, University of Auckland, Auckland, NZ

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• Brya Mathews,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology, University of Auckland, Auckland, NZ

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• Simon Swift,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology, University of Auckland, Auckland, NZ

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• Dustin L. Williams,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

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• Jillian Cornish

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

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland, NZ

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