Modern Acinetobacter baumannii clinical isolates replicate inside spacious vacuoles and egress from macrophages

• Gabriela Sycz ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gabriela Sycz, Gisela Di Venanzio

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

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4020-4548

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• Gisela Di Venanzio ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gabriela Sycz, Gisela Di Venanzio

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

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1969-3145

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• Jesus S. Distel,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4589-5314

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• Mariana G. Sartorio,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5539-2388

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• Nguyen-Hung Le,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8659-6949

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• Nichollas E. Scott,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2556-8316

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• Wandy L. Beatty,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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• Mario F. Feldman

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mariofeldman@wustl.edu

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4497-0976

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