Exosomes derived from bladder epithelial cells infected with uropathogenic Escherichia coli increase the severity of urinary tract infections (UTIs) by impairing macrophage function

• Zihao Wang,

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

  Affiliation Department of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

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• Ziming Jiang,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

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• Yu Zhang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

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• Congwei Wang,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

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• Zhaoyang Liu,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

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• Zhankui Jia,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

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• Sudhanshu Bhushan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Unit of Reproductive Biology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany

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• Jinjian Yang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yangjinjian2011@126.com (JY); zzg7181@126.com (ZZ)

  Affiliation Department of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

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• Zhengguo Zhang

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

  * E-mail: yangjinjian2011@126.com (JY); zzg7181@126.com (ZZ)

  Affiliation Department of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6476-0119

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