The gut microbiota-independent virulence of noninvasive bacterial pathogen Citrobacter rodentium

• Yue Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yue Liu, Dongqing Xu

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Dongqing Xu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yue Liu, Dongqing Xu

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dongqing.holly@gmail.com (DX); fwan1@jhu.edu (FW)

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Songwei Guo,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Shuyu Wang,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Hua Ding,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Catherine Siu,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Fengyi Wan

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dongqing.holly@gmail.com (DX); fwan1@jhu.edu (FW)

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9216-9767

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