A live auxotrophic vaccine confers mucosal immunity and protection against lethal pneumonia caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa

• Maria P. Cabral,

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

  Current address: Department of Microbiology, Galicia Sur Health Research Institute (IISGS), Vigo, Spain.

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University Hospital A Coruña (CHUAC)–Biomedical Research Institute A Coruña (INIBIC), A Coruña, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7119-440X

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• Alexandra Correia,

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

  Affiliations i3S –Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, IBMC–Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

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• Manuel Vilanova,

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

  Affiliations i3S –Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, IBMC–Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7007-306X

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• Fátima Gärtner,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations i3S –Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, IPATIMUP—Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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• Miriam Moscoso,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University Hospital A Coruña (CHUAC)–Biomedical Research Institute A Coruña (INIBIC), A Coruña, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8977-3269

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• Patricia García,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University Hospital A Coruña (CHUAC)–Biomedical Research Institute A Coruña (INIBIC), A Coruña, Spain

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• Juan A. Vallejo,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University Hospital A Coruña (CHUAC)–Biomedical Research Institute A Coruña (INIBIC), A Coruña, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7581-8654

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• Astrid Pérez,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University Hospital A Coruña (CHUAC)–Biomedical Research Institute A Coruña (INIBIC), A Coruña, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1809-3332

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• Mónica Francisco-Tomé,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Galicia Sur Health Research Institute (IISGS), Vigo, Spain

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• Víctor Fuentes-Valverde,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University Hospital A Coruña (CHUAC)–Biomedical Research Institute A Coruña (INIBIC), A Coruña, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1827-7003

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• Germán Bou

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

  * E-mail: german.bou.arevalo@sergas.es

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University Hospital A Coruña (CHUAC)–Biomedical Research Institute A Coruña (INIBIC), A Coruña, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8837-0062

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