A Clostridium difficile Cell Wall Glycopolymer Locus Influences Bacterial Shape, Polysaccharide Production and Virulence

• Michele Chu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Michele Chu, Michael J. G. Mallozzi

  Affiliation School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

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• Michael J. G. Mallozzi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Michele Chu, Michael J. G. Mallozzi

  Affiliation School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

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• Bryan P. Roxas,

  Affiliation School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0139-2232

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• Lisa Bertolo,

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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• Mario A. Monteiro,

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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• Al Agellon,

  Affiliation School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

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• V. K. Viswanathan ,

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Department of Immunobiology, Bio5 Institute for Collaborative Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

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• Gayatri Vedantam

  * E-mail: gayatri@email.arizona.edu

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Department of Immunobiology, Bio5 Institute for Collaborative Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Southern Arizona VA Healthcare System, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

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