Pertactin contributes to shedding and transmission of Bordetella bronchiseptica

• Longhuan Ma ,

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

  * E-mail: longhuanma@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1836-3462

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• Kalyan K. Dewan,

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

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Dawn L. Taylor-Mulneix,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Shannon M. Wagner,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8204-0740

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• Bodo Linz,

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

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Israel Rivera,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2860-344X

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• Yang Su,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7720-4197

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• Amanda D. Caulfield,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1997-4302

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• Uriel Blas-Machado,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Athens Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Eric T. Harvill

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

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8893-2133

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