The Fim and FhaB adhesins play a crucial role in nasal cavity infection and Bordetella pertussis transmission in a novel mouse catarrhal infection model

• Jana Holubova,

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

  Affiliation Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9755-7715

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• Ondrej Stanek,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

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• Attila Juhasz,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

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• Illiassou Hamidou Soumana,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Current address: Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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

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• Peter Makovicky,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Centre for Phenogenomics, Vestec, Czech Republic

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• Peter Sebo

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

  * E-mail: sebo@biomed.cas.cz

  Affiliation Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

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