Impaired upper respiratory tract barrier function during postnatal development predisposes to invasive pneumococcal disease

• Kristen L. Lokken-Toyli ,

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

  * E-mail: Kristen.Lokken-toyli@nyulangone.org

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2058-2015

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• Surya D. Aggarwal,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8900-6684

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• Gavyn Chern Wei Bee,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Wouter A. A. de Steenhuijsen Piters,

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

  Affiliations Department of Paediatric Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital/University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands; Department of Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands

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• Cindy Wu,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Kenny Zhi Ming Chen,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Cynthia Loomis,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Debby Bogaert,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Paediatric Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital/University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands, Centre for Inflammation Research, Institute for Regeneration and Repair, Queen’s Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Jeffrey N. Weiser

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

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