Identification of Penicillin Binding Protein 4 (PBP4) as a critical factor for Staphylococcus aureus bone invasion during osteomyelitis in mice

• Elysia A. Masters,

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

  Affiliations Center for Musculoskeletal Research, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9981-624X

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• Karen L. de Mesy Bentley,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Musculoskeletal Research, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America, Department of Orthopaedics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America

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• Ann Lindley Gill,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3885-4725

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• Stephanie P. Hao,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Musculoskeletal Research, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3760-8234

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• Chad A. Galloway,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Musculoskeletal Research, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America

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• Alec T. Salminen,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8045-0719

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• Diamond R. Guy,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Center for Musculoskeletal Research, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1637-2880

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• James L. McGrath,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2017-8335

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• Hani A. Awad,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Musculoskeletal Research, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2197-2610

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• Steven R. Gill,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2408-1373

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• Edward M. Schwarz

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

  * E-mail: edward_schwarz@urmc.rochester.edu

  Affiliations Center for Musculoskeletal Research, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America, Department of Orthopaedics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America

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