Naturally-occurring serotype 3 Streptococcus pneumoniae strains that lack functional pneumolysin and autolysin have attenuated virulence but induce localized protective immune responses

• Ηαnnah E. Wong ,

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

  * E-mail: hew28@cam.ac.uk

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9530-7106

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• Panagiotis Tourlomousis,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

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• Gavin K. Paterson,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and the Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush Campus, Midlothian, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1880-0095

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• Steve Webster,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

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• Clare E. Bryant

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

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

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