Staphylococcus aureus isolates from children with clinically differentiated osteomyelitis exhibit distinct transcriptomic signatures

• Ahmad A. Hachem ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ahmad A. Hachem, Laura M. Filkins, Yared H. Kidane, Prithvi Raj, Naureen G. Tareen, Carlos A. Arana, Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan, Lawson A. Copley

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

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida College of Medicine –Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL, United States of America

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• Laura M. Filkins ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ahmad A. Hachem, Laura M. Filkins, Yared H. Kidane, Prithvi Raj, Naureen G. Tareen, Carlos A. Arana, Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan, Lawson A. Copley

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Texas Southwestern, Children’s Health System of Texas, Dallas, TX, United States of America

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• Yared H. Kidane ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ahmad A. Hachem, Laura M. Filkins, Yared H. Kidane, Prithvi Raj, Naureen G. Tareen, Carlos A. Arana, Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan, Lawson A. Copley

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

  Affiliation Center for Pediatric Bone Biology and Translational Research, Scottish Rite for Children, Dallas, TX, United States of America

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• Prithvi Raj ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ahmad A. Hachem, Laura M. Filkins, Yared H. Kidane, Prithvi Raj, Naureen G. Tareen, Carlos A. Arana, Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan, Lawson A. Copley

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

  Affiliation Microbiome Research Laboratory, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX, United States of America

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• Naureen G. Tareen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ahmad A. Hachem, Laura M. Filkins, Yared H. Kidane, Prithvi Raj, Naureen G. Tareen, Carlos A. Arana, Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan, Lawson A. Copley

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery, Children’s Health System of Texas, Dallas, TX, United States of America

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• Carlos A. Arana ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ahmad A. Hachem, Laura M. Filkins, Yared H. Kidane, Prithvi Raj, Naureen G. Tareen, Carlos A. Arana, Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan, Lawson A. Copley

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Genomics Core, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX, United States of America

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• Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ahmad A. Hachem, Laura M. Filkins, Yared H. Kidane, Prithvi Raj, Naureen G. Tareen, Carlos A. Arana, Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan, Lawson A. Copley

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

  Affiliation Center for Musculoskeletal Research, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America

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• Lawson A. Copley

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ahmad A. Hachem, Laura M. Filkins, Yared H. Kidane, Prithvi Raj, Naureen G. Tareen, Carlos A. Arana, Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan, Lawson A. Copley

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

  * E-mail: lawson.copley@childrens.com

  Affiliations Department of Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery, Children’s Health System of Texas, Dallas, TX, United States of America, Department of Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4325-2414

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