Pathogenic bacterial species and the microbiome of cat fleas (Ctenocephalides felis) inhabiting flea-infested homes

• Taylor E. Gin,

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

  Current Address: Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Population Health and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2508-7929

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• Charlotte O. Moore,

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

  Current Address: Department of Global Therapeutics, Zoetis Animal Health, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Trey Tomlinson,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

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• Grace Wilson,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

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• Amiah Gray,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

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• Cameron Sutherland,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

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• Kamilyah Miller,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

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• Krista Li,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

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• Michael Canfield,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Animal Dermatology South, New Port Richey, Florida, United States of America

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• Brian Herrin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

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• Erin Lashnits ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Erin Lashnits, Benjamin Callahan

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Current Address: Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

  ¶‡ EL and BC are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0949-5698

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• Benjamin Callahan

  Contributed equally to this work with: Erin Lashnits, Benjamin Callahan

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bcallah@ncsu.edu

  ¶‡ EL and BC are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8752-117X

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