Arginine metabolism has a pivotal function for the encystation of Giardia duodenalis

• Christian Klotz ,

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

  * E-mail: klotzc@rki.de

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Unit 16 Mycotic and Parasitic Agents and Mycobacteria, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2609-9654

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• Ricarda Leisering,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Unit 16 Mycotic and Parasitic Agents and Mycobacteria, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

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• Kari D. Hagen,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California Davis, Davis, United States of America

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• Hannah N. Starcevich,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California Davis, Davis, United States of America

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• Antonia Müller,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Unit 16 Mycotic and Parasitic Agents and Mycobacteria, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

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• Christoph Ewald,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Unit 16 Mycotic and Parasitic Agents and Mycobacteria, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

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• Samuel Türken,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Unit 16 Mycotic and Parasitic Agents and Mycobacteria, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

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• Malte Marquardt,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Unit 16 Mycotic and Parasitic Agents and Mycobacteria, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

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• Saskia Schramm,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Unit 16 Mycotic and Parasitic Agents and Mycobacteria, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

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• Totta Ehret Kasemo,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Unit 16 Mycotic and Parasitic Agents and Mycobacteria, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

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• Stefanie Marek,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Unit 16 Mycotic and Parasitic Agents and Mycobacteria, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

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• Frank Seeber,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Unit 16 Mycotic and Parasitic Agents and Mycobacteria, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

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• Ralf Ignatius,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations MVZ Labor 28, Berlin, Germany, Institute of Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany

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• Scott C. Dawson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Scott C. Dawson, Toni Aebischer

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California Davis, Davis, United States of America

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• Toni Aebischer

  Contributed equally to this work with: Scott C. Dawson, Toni Aebischer

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

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Unit 16 Mycotic and Parasitic Agents and Mycobacteria, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

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