Pneumococcal capsule expression is controlled through a conserved, distal cis-regulatory element during infection

• David G. Glanville,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, Illinois, United States of America

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• Ozcan Gazioglu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, United Kingdom

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• Michela Marra,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, Illinois, United States of America

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• Valerie L. Tokars,

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

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Tatyana Kushnir,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of The Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

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• Medhanie Habtom,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, United Kingdom

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• Nicholas J. Croucher,

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

  Affiliation MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Sir Michael Uren Hub, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Yaffa Mizrachi Nebenzahl,

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

  Affiliation The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of The Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

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• Alfonso Mondragón,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

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• Hasan Yesilkaya,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, United Kingdom

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• Andrew T. Ulijasz

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

  * E-mail: aulijasz@luc.edu

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, Illinois, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0739-1297

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