The Streptococcus pyogenes hyaluronic acid capsule promotes experimental nasal and skin infection by preventing neutrophil-mediated clearance

• Jacklyn R. Hurst,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

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• Blake A. Shannon,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

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• Heather C. Craig,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

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• Aanchal Rishi,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

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• Stephen W. Tuffs,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

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• John K. McCormick

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

  * E-mail: john.mccormick@uwo.ca

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Lawson Health Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3742-7289

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