Blair Armistead
Blair Armistead
1Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
2Center for Global Infectious Disease Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA, United States
1,2,
Christopher Whidbey
Christopher Whidbey
1Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
2Center for Global Infectious Disease Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA, United States
1,2,†,
Lakshminarayan M Iyer
Lakshminarayan M Iyer
3Computational Biology Branch, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
3,
Pilar Herrero-Foncubierta
Pilar Herrero-Foncubierta
4Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
4,
Phoenicia Quach
Phoenicia Quach
2Center for Global Infectious Disease Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA, United States
2,
Ali Haidour
Ali Haidour
4Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
4,
L Aravind
L Aravind
3Computational Biology Branch, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
3,
Juan Manuel Cuerva
Juan Manuel Cuerva
4Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
4,
Heather B Jaspan
Heather B Jaspan
1Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
2Center for Global Infectious Disease Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA, United States
5Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, United States
6Department of Pathology, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
1,2,5,6,
Lakshmi Rajagopal
Lakshmi Rajagopal
1Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
2Center for Global Infectious Disease Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA, United States
5Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, United States
1,2,5,*
1Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
2Center for Global Infectious Disease Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA, United States
3Computational Biology Branch, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
4Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
5Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, United States
6Department of Pathology, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
✉*Correspondence: Lakshmi Rajagopal lakshmi.rajagopal@seattlechildrens.org
Approved by: Frontiers Editorial Office, Frontiers Media SA, Switzerland
†Present address: Christopher Whidbey, Seattle University, Seattle, WA, United States
This article was submitted to Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Microbiology
Received 2020 Feb 3; Accepted 2020 Feb 14; Collection date 2020.
Keywords: Group B Streptococcus, bacterial toxin, microbial evolution, virulence factor, Gram-positive bacteria
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