Evolution of strain diversity and virulence factor repertoire in pediatric Staphylococcus aureus isolates

• Margaret Free ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: Margaret.Free@SanfordHealth.org, margaretfree05@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8970-0462

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• Nicole Soper,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• James C. Slaughter,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Andries Feder,

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

  Affiliations Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Colleen Bianco,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Ahmed M. Moustafa,

  Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Paul Planet,

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

  Affiliations Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America

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• C. Buddy Creech,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Isaac Thomsen

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

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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