Impact of Microbiota on Resistance to Ocular Pseudomonas aeruginosa-Induced Keratitis

Abirami Kugadas; Stig Hill Christiansen; Saiprasad Sankaranarayanan; Neeraj K. Surana; Stefanie Gauguet; Ryan Kunz; Raina Fichorova; Thomas Vorup-Jensen; Mihaela Gadjeva

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1005855

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Impact of Microbiota on Resistance to Ocular Pseudomonas aeruginosa-Induced Keratitis

Abirami Kugadas,

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Stig Hill Christiansen,

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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Saiprasad Sankaranarayanan,

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5035-9041

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Neeraj K. Surana,

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9544-2551

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Stefanie Gauguet,

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Anesthesia, UMass Memorial Children’s Medical Center, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4825-5371

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Ryan Kunz,

Affiliation Thermo Fisher Scientific Center for Multiplexed Proteomics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Raina Fichorova,

Affiliation Laboratory of Genital Tract Biology, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Thomas Vorup-Jensen,

Affiliation Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4140-6563

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Mihaela Gadjeva

* E-mail: mgadjeva@rics.bwh.harvard.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Impact of Microbiota on Resistance to Ocular Pseudomonas aeruginosa-Induced Keratitis

Abirami Kugadas,
Stig Hill Christiansen,
Saiprasad Sankaranarayanan,
Neeraj K. Surana,
Stefanie Gauguet,
Ryan Kunz,
Raina Fichorova,
Thomas Vorup-Jensen,
Mihaela Gadjeva

Published: September 22, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1005855

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