Candida albicans activates Staphylococcus aureus virulence regulatory systems to drive toxin-mediated human cell death

• Kara R. Eichelberger,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4532-9486

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• Ravishankar Chandrasekaran,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Host-Microbe Interactions, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Nicholas A. Podar,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Biomedical Engineering Program, School of Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Jia A. Mei,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Jacob M. Curry,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Saikat Paul,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Translational Science, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Julie A. Bastarache,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Victor J. Torres,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Host-Microbe Interactions, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Paul L. Fidel Jr.,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Oral and Craniofacial Biology, Louisiana State University Health – School of Dentistry, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

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• Brian M. Peters,

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

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Translational Science, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Biochemistry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

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• James E. Cassat

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

  * E-mail: jim.cassat@vumc.org

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt Center for Bone Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology, and Inflammation (VI4), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1199-1167

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