Mycobacteria Exploit Host Hyaluronan for Efficient Extracellular Replication

• Yukio Hirayama,

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Osaka, Japan

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• Mamiko Yoshimura,

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Osaka, Japan

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• Yuriko Ozeki,

  Affiliations Department of Bacteriology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Osaka, Japan, Sonoda Women's University, Amagasaki, Hyogo, Japan

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• Isamu Sugawara,

  Affiliation Mycobacterial Reference Center, The Research Institute of Tuberculosis, Kiyose, Tokyo, Japan

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• Tadashi Udagawa,

  Affiliation Mycobacterial Reference Center, The Research Institute of Tuberculosis, Kiyose, Tokyo, Japan

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• Satoru Mizuno,

  Affiliation Mycobacterial Reference Center, The Research Institute of Tuberculosis, Kiyose, Tokyo, Japan

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• Naoki Itano,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Oncology, Division of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Institute on Aging and Adaptation, Shinshu University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagano, Japan

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• Koji Kimata,

  Affiliation Research Complex for the Medicine Frontiers, Aichi Medical University, Yazako, Nagakute, Aichi, Japan

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• Aki Tamaru,

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Bacteriology Division, Osaka Prefectural Institute of Public Health, Osaka, Japan

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• Hisashi Ogura,

  Affiliation Department of Virology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Osaka, Japan

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• Kazuo Kobayashi,

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Sohkichi Matsumoto

  * E-mail: sohkichi@med.osaka-cu.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Osaka, Japan

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