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1. Au: Your article has been edited for grammar, clarity, consistency,
and adherence to journal style. To expedite publication,
we no longer ask authors for approval of routine grammatical
and style changes. Please read the article to make sure your
meaning has been retained; any layout problems (including table
and figure placement) will be addressed after we have incorporated
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2. Au: The following queries are for sentence 1 (“The correlation.
. .”): (a) Should “formation” be inserted after “biofilm”?
(b) Okay that I inserted “of the host” after “invasion”?
3. Au: Please carefully review and verify edits to the sentence
“In a murine model. . ..”
4. Au: (a) Okay that I inserted “Formation” after “Biofilm” in
the title of your article? (b) Please expand “UOC” in “UOC Batteriologia”
in author affiliation 2. (c) Please verify that the author
affiliations are correct as shown and that they are correctly
matched with the appropriate author names.
5. Au: In the sentence “Competition both. . .,” please (a) verify
my expansion of “DANA” and (b) indicate whether “oseltamivir”
should be changed to “oseltamivir phosphate” at first mention
in the abstract and text. (c) Please verify all other edits to the
sentence.
6. Au: In the sentence “The association. . .,” okay that I inserted
“pneumococcal” before “colonization”?
7. Au: Please review edits to the sentence “To address. . .,” and
either verify that they are acceptable as shown or provide clarification
of your intended meaning.
8. Au: In the sentence “The burden of. . .,” okay that I changed
“high” to “great”?
9. Au: In the sentence “Successive. . .,” okay that I inserted “incidence”
after “peak”?
10. Au: (a) Please note, that because of edits made to the sentence
“In the pneumococcus. . .,” I renumbered original references
7–10 (and their citations) so they would appear in sequential
order. Please verify that no errors were introduced during
renumbering of your references/citations. (b) Please verify all
edits to the sentence “In the pneumococcus. . ..”
11. Au: Okay that I inserted “To our knowledge” before “at
this time” at the beginning of the sentence?
12. Au: (a) Please carefully review and verify all edits to the
sentence “Sialic acid–free. . ..” (b) Please note that, as per JID
style, I changed all text mentions of “M” (to denote molarity) to
“mol/L.” Please carefully review all such changes, and verify that
they are acceptable as shown.
13. Au: Please carefully review and verify edits to the information
in the 2 sentences “The primers used. . .” and “The size of
the. . ..”
14. Au: In the sentence “To detach. . .,” okay that I changed
“Transonic 460, 35 kHz” to “sonicator water bath (a Transonic
460/H ultrasonic bath [Elma])”?
15. Au: (a) In the sentence “The sugars used. . . here and in the
sentence “Solutions of carbohydrates. . .,” below, okay that I inserted
“(sialic)” between “N-acetylneuraminic” and “acid”? (b)
In the sentence “Solutions of carbohydrates. . .,” okay that I
placed each pH in brackets?
16. Au: Please specify the version number of the CellQuest
software used.
17. Au: In the sentence “Statistical analysis. . .” and elsewhere
in your text, okay that I changed mentions of “t test” to “ Student’s
t test”?
18. Au: Okay that, here in the sentence “In all experiments. . .”
and elsewhere in your text, I specified “nasopharyngeal lavage
fluid” and “lung lavage fluid”?
19. Au: Your tables and/or figures have been edited in accordance
with journal style. Please check carefully to ensure that all
edits are acceptable and that the integrity of the data has been
maintained. Please also confirm, where applicable, that units of
measure are correct, that table column heads accurately reflect
the information in the columns below, and that all material contained
in figure legends and table footnotes (including definitions
of symbols and abbreviations) is correct.
20. Au: Because the figures in your original article your cited
out of sequential order, I renumbered original figures 1–4 and
their text citations. Please carefully review all renumbered figures
and figure citations, and verify that no errors were introduced
during renumbering.