Bacterial fitness in chronic wounds appears to be mediated by the capacity for high-density growth, not virulence or biofilm functions

• Sarah J. Morgan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Soyeon I. Lippman ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Soyeon I. Lippman, Gilbert E. Bautista

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6074-500X

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• Gilbert E. Bautista ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Soyeon I. Lippman, Gilbert E. Bautista

  Roles Investigation

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

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• Joe J. Harrison,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

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• Christopher L. Harding,

  Roles Investigation

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

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• Larry A. Gallagher,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

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• Ann-Chee Cheng,

  Roles Investigation

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

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9012-2455

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• Richard Siehnel,

  Roles Resources

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

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7078-5657

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• Sumedha Ravishankar,

  Roles Investigation

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

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• Marcia L. Usui,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle WA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4661-3729

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• John E. Olerud,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle WA, United States of America

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• Philip Fleckman,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle WA, United States of America

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• Randall D. Wolcott,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Southwest Regional Wound Care Center, Lubbock, TX, United States of America

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• Colin Manoil ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: manoil@uw.edu (CM); singhpr@uw.edu (PKS)

  Affiliation Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

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• Pradeep K. Singh

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

  * E-mail: manoil@uw.edu (CM); singhpr@uw.edu (PKS)

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

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9281-0219

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