Host-specialized fibrinogen-binding by a bacterial surface protein promotes biofilm formation and innate immune evasion

• Amy C. Pickering,

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

  Affiliation The Roslin Institute and Edinburgh Infectious Diseases, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush Campus, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2154-224X

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• Pauline Vitry,

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

  Affiliation Institute of Life Sciences, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

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• Valeriia Prystopiuk,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Institute of Life Sciences, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

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• Brandon Garcia,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Brody school of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6724-8700

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• Magnus Höök,

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

  Affiliation Center for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Jeffrey Schoenebeck,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush Campus, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4964-2138

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• Joan A. Geoghegan,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Moyne Institute of Preventive Medicine, School of Genetics and Microbiology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3788-0668

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• Yves F. Dufrêne,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Life Sciences, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, Walloon Excellence in Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Wavre, Belgium

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• J. Ross Fitzgerald

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

  * E-mail: ross.fitzgerald@ed.ac.uk

  Affiliation The Roslin Institute and Edinburgh Infectious Diseases, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush Campus, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9233-8468

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