Pseudomonas aeruginosa rugose small-colony variants evade host clearance, are hyper-inflammatory, and persist in multiple host environments

• Matthew J. Pestrak,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbial Infection and Immunity, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7609-7537

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• Sarah B. Chaney,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbial Infection and Immunity, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Heather C. Eggleston,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbial Infection and Immunity, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5217-4414

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• Sheri Dellos-Nolan,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbial Infection and Immunity, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Sriteja Dixit,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Shomita S. Mathew-Steiner,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7730-9140

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• Sashwati Roy,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Matthew R. Parsek,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Chandan K. Sen,

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

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Daniel J. Wozniak

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Daniel.Wozniak@osumc.edu

  Affiliation Department of Microbial Infection and Immunity, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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