Airway metabolic profiling during Streptococcus pneumoniae infection identifies branched chain amino acids as signatures of upper airway colonisation

• Angharad E. Green,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Sian Pottenger ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sian Pottenger, Manal S. Monshi

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

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Manal S. Monshi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sian Pottenger, Manal S. Monshi

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Thomas E. Barton,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization

  Current address: Division of Molecular Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Marie Phelan,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Highfield NMR Facility, Liverpool Shared Research Facilities (LIV-SRF), University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Department of Biochemistry and Systems Biology, Institute of Molecular, Systems and Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Daniel R. Neill

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

  * E-mail: DNeill001@Dundee.ac.uk

  Current address: Division of Molecular Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7911-8153

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