Genome-wide discovery of novel M1T1 group A streptococcal determinants important for fitness and virulence during soft-tissue infection

• Yoann Le Breton ,

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

  * E-mail: lebreton@umd.edu (YLB); kmciver@umd.edu (KSM)

  Affiliation Department of Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics and Maryland Pathogen Research Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8040-2605

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• Ashton T. Belew,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics and Maryland Pathogen Research Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6725-5081

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• Jeffrey A. Freiberg,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Graduate Program in Life Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5788-1481

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• Ganesh S. Sundar,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics and Maryland Pathogen Research Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

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• Emrul Islam,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics and Maryland Pathogen Research Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

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• Joshua Lieberman,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0376-1337

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• Mark E. Shirtliff,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Dental School, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Hervé Tettelin,

  Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0615-3257

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• Najib M. El-Sayed,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics and Maryland Pathogen Research Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7970-3312

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• Kevin S. McIver

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

  * E-mail: lebreton@umd.edu (YLB); kmciver@umd.edu (KSM)

  Affiliation Department of Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics and Maryland Pathogen Research Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4769-4463

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