Mycoplasma bovis 5′-nucleotidase is a virulence factor conferring mammary fitness in bovine mastitis

• Aga E. Gelgie ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Aga E. Gelgie, Peleg Schneider

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

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Peleg Schneider ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Aga E. Gelgie, Peleg Schneider

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

  Affiliation The Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel

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• Christine Citti,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Interactions Hôtes-Agents Pathogènes (IHAP), Université de Toulouse, INRAE, ENVT, Toulouse, France

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• Emilie Dordet-Frisoni,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Interactions Hôtes-Agents Pathogènes (IHAP), Université de Toulouse, INRAE, ENVT, Toulouse, France

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• Barbara E. Gillespie,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Raúl A. Almeida,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Getahun E. Agga,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Food Animal Environmental Systems Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States of America

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• Yaa Serwaah Amoah,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel, Mycoplasma Unit, Department of Avian Diseases, Kimron Veterinary Institute, Beit Dagan, Israel

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• Nahum Y. Shpigel ,

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

  * E-mail: nahum.shpigel@mail.huji.ac.il (NYS); okerrode@utk.edu (OKD); innal@moag.gov.il (IL)

  ¶‡ NYS, OKD, and IL also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation The Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel

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• Oudessa Kerro Dego ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nahum.shpigel@mail.huji.ac.il (NYS); okerrode@utk.edu (OKD); innal@moag.gov.il (IL)

  ¶‡ NYS, OKD, and IL also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Inna Lysnyansky

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

  * E-mail: nahum.shpigel@mail.huji.ac.il (NYS); okerrode@utk.edu (OKD); innal@moag.gov.il (IL)

  ¶‡ NYS, OKD, and IL also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Mycoplasma Unit, Department of Avian Diseases, Kimron Veterinary Institute, Beit Dagan, Israel

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6923-3676

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