Aerobactin is a key driver of hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae translocation and virulence

• Giovanna E. Hernandez,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Juan D. Valencia Bacca,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Emma F. Bennett,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Md. Maidul Islam,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Suhrid Maiti,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Noah A. Nutter,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Taylor M. Young,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

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• David L. Caudell,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Pathology-Comparative Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Alicia Costa-Terryll,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Jaden J. Skelly,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Edison T. Floyd,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Pathology Services Core, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Hannah M. Atkins,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Division of Comparative Medicine, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• M. Ammar Zafar

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

  * E-mail: ammar.zafar@emory.edu

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3737-0422

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