Streptococcus pneumoniae in the heart subvert the host response through biofilm-mediated resident macrophage killing

• Anukul T. Shenoy,

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

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States of America

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• Terry Brissac,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2549-4479

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• Ryan P. Gilley,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States of America

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• Nikhil Kumar,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Yong Wang,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

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• Norberto Gonzalez-Juarbe,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

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• Whitney S. Hinkle,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

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• Sean C. Daugherty,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Amol C. Shetty,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Sandra Ott,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Luke J. Tallon,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4656-4480

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• Jessy Deshane,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America

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• Hervé Tettelin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Carlos J. Orihuela

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

  * E-mail: corihuel@uab.edu

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8542-4069

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