Colonization of the tsetse fly midgut with commensal Kosakonia cowanii Zambiae inhibits trypanosome infection establishment

• Brian L. Weiss ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Brian L. Weiss, Michele A. Maltz

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

  * E-mail: brian.weiss@yale.edu (BLW); serap.aksoy@yale.edu (SA)

  Affiliation Yale School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1576-3556

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• Michele A. Maltz ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Brian L. Weiss, Michele A. Maltz

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

  Affiliation Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Aurélien Vigneron,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Yale School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4986-6465

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• Yineng Wu,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Yale School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Katharine S. Walter,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Yale School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0065-2204

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• Michelle B. O’Neill,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Yale School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2079-4122

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• Jingwen Wang,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Yale School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Serap Aksoy

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: brian.weiss@yale.edu (BLW); serap.aksoy@yale.edu (SA)

  Affiliation Yale School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9941-143X

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