Urease is an essential component of the acid response network of Staphylococcus aureus and is required for a persistent murine kidney infection

• Chunyi Zhou,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1278-5901

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• Fatema Bhinderwala,

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

  Affiliations Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America, Nebraska Center for Integrated Biomolecular Communication, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3033-8438

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• McKenzie K. Lehman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3335-5284

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• Vinai C. Thomas,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7886-0727

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• Sujata S. Chaudhari,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9609-152X

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• Kelsey J. Yamada,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

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• Kirk W. Foster,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

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• Robert Powers,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America, Nebraska Center for Integrated Biomolecular Communication, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9948-6837

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• Tammy Kielian,

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

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7624-670X

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• Paul D. Fey

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

  * E-mail: pfey@unmc.edu

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0939-6884

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