Increased Susceptibility of Humanized NSG Mice to Panton-Valentine Leukocidin and Staphylococcus aureus Skin Infection

• Ching Wen Tseng ,

  * E-mail: George.Liu@cshs.org (GYL); dolorsas@gmail.com (CWT)

  Affiliations Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and the Immunobiology Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Juan Carlos Biancotti ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Juan Carlos Biancotti, Bethany L. Berg, David Gate

  Affiliation Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Bethany L. Berg ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Juan Carlos Biancotti, Bethany L. Berg, David Gate

  Affiliations Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and the Immunobiology Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• David Gate ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Juan Carlos Biancotti, Bethany L. Berg, David Gate

  Affiliations Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Stacey L. Kolar,

  Affiliations Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and the Immunobiology Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Sabrina Müller,

  Affiliations Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and the Immunobiology Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Maria D. Rodriguez,

  Affiliations Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and the Immunobiology Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Kavon Rezai-Zadeh,

  Current Address: Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Xuemo Fan,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• David O. Beenhouwer,

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California; Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Terrence Town ,

  ¶‡ TT and GYL also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• George Y. Liu

  * E-mail: George.Liu@cshs.org (GYL); dolorsas@gmail.com (CWT)

  ¶‡ TT and GYL also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and the Immunobiology Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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