Prior contact lens wear reduces susceptibility of the superficially-injured cornea to bacterial adhesion

• Yujia Yang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yujia Yang, Orneika Flandrin

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry & Vision Science, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

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• Orneika Flandrin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yujia Yang, Orneika Flandrin

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

  Affiliation Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry & Vision Science, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

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• Sara J. Abboud,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry & Vision Science, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3161-9151

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• Eric Jedel,

  Roles Methodology, Software

  Affiliations Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry & Vision Science, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Graduate Program in Infectious Diseases and Immunity, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

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• David J. Evans,

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

  Affiliations Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry & Vision Science, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, College of Pharmacy, Touro University California, Vallejo, California, United States of America

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• Suzanne M. J. Fleiszig

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

  * E-mail: fleiszig@berkeley.edu

  Affiliations Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry & Vision Science, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Graduate Groups in Vision Science, Microbiology, and Infectious Diseases & Immunity, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6324-3462

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