A systematic analysis of hypermucoviscosity and capsule reveals distinct and overlapping genes that impact Klebsiella pneumoniae fitness

• Laura A. Mike ,

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

  * E-mail: lmike@umich.edu (LAM); hmobley@umich.edu (HLTM)

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3368-4184

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• Andrew J. Stark ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew J. Stark, Valerie S. Forsyth

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3185-2885

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• Valerie S. Forsyth ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew J. Stark, Valerie S. Forsyth

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

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• Jay Vornhagen,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

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• Sara N. Smith,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

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• Michael A. Bachman,

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

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

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• Harry L. T. Mobley

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

  * E-mail: lmike@umich.edu (LAM); hmobley@umich.edu (HLTM)

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9195-7665

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