A genome-wide in vivo screen reveals fitness pathways required for streptococcal infective endocarditis

• Liang Bao ,

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

  * E-mail: pxu@vcu.edu (PX); tkitten@vcu.edu (TK); baol@vcu.edu (LB)

  Affiliation Department of Oral and Craniofacial Molecular Biology, Philips Institute for Oral Health Research, School of Dentistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0228-6124

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• Jennifer L. Bradley,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Oral and Craniofacial Molecular Biology, Philips Institute for Oral Health Research, School of Dentistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• Vysakh Anandan,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Oral and Craniofacial Molecular Biology, Philips Institute for Oral Health Research, School of Dentistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• Katarzyna M. Tyc,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America, Massey Bioinformatics Shared Resource Core, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• Zan Zhu,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Oral and Craniofacial Molecular Biology, Philips Institute for Oral Health Research, School of Dentistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• Josephina Anna Vossen,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, VCU School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• Valery-francine Assi,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Oral and Craniofacial Molecular Biology, Philips Institute for Oral Health Research, School of Dentistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• Jasmine Somia Benbei,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Present address: Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, 503 Robert Grant Avenue, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America;

  Affiliations Department of Oral and Craniofacial Molecular Biology, Philips Institute for Oral Health Research, School of Dentistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• Nicai Zollar,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Oral and Craniofacial Molecular Biology, Philips Institute for Oral Health Research, School of Dentistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• Todd Kitten ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: pxu@vcu.edu (PX); tkitten@vcu.edu (TK); baol@vcu.edu (LB)

  Affiliation Department of Oral and Craniofacial Molecular Biology, Philips Institute for Oral Health Research, School of Dentistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6097-7583

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• Ping Xu

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

  * E-mail: pxu@vcu.edu (PX); tkitten@vcu.edu (TK); baol@vcu.edu (LB)

  Affiliation Department of Oral and Craniofacial Molecular Biology, Philips Institute for Oral Health Research, School of Dentistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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