Exploring the potential of bis(thiazol-5-yl)phenylmethane derivatives as novel candidates against genetically defined multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

• Povilas Kavaliauskas ,

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

  * E-mail: pok4001@med.cornell.edu

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine of Cornell University, New York, NY, United States of America, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Pathogenic Microbiology, Prienai, Lithuania, Biological Research Center, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania, Department of Organic Chemistry, Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0237-9088

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• Waldo Acevedo,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Instituto de Química, Facultad de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1182-0253

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• Andrew Garcia,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine of Cornell University, New York, NY, United States of America

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• Ethan Naing,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine of Cornell University, New York, NY, United States of America

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• Birute Grybaite,

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

  Affiliation Department of Organic Chemistry, Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania

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• Birute Sapijanskaite-Banevic,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Organic Chemistry, Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania

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• Ramune Grigaleviciute,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Biological Research Center, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania, Department of Animal Nutrition, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania

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• Ruta Petraitiene,

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

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine of Cornell University, New York, NY, United States of America, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Pathogenic Microbiology, Prienai, Lithuania

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• Vytautas Mickevicius ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Vytautas Mickevicius, Vidmantas Petraitis

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Organic Chemistry, Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania

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• Vidmantas Petraitis

  Contributed equally to this work with: Vytautas Mickevicius, Vidmantas Petraitis

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine of Cornell University, New York, NY, United States of America, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Pathogenic Microbiology, Prienai, Lithuania, Biological Research Center, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania, Center for Discovery and Innovation, Hackensack Meridian Health, Nutley, New Jersey, United States of America

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