Fibrin(ogen) engagement of S. aureus promotes the host antimicrobial response and suppression of microbe dissemination following peritoneal infection

• Oscar Negrón,

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

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UNC Blood Research Center, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5234-8397

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• Woosuk S. Hur,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UNC Blood Research Center, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5074-6423

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• Joni Prasad,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Experimental Hematology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5224-6502

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• David S. Paul,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, UNC Blood Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Sarah E. Rowe,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Jay L. Degen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Experimental Hematology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4160-1382

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• Sara R. Abrahams,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UNC Blood Research Center, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Silvio Antoniak,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UNC Blood Research Center, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5523-825X

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• Brian P. Conlon,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Wolfgang Bergmeier,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, UNC Blood Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1211-8861

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• Magnus Hӧӧk,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center of Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Texas A&M Health Sciences Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Matthew J. Flick

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: matthew_flick@med.unc.edu

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UNC Blood Research Center, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5034-3162

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