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The authors thank D Hills for her excellent clerical support.

Financial & competing interests disclosure

The Staphylococcus pseudintermedius investigations are part of the PhD thesis work for L Blondeau, which is funded in part by the Royal University Hospital Foundation grant no. 220207. The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.

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J.M. Blondeau is a member of the Future Microbiology Editorial Board. They were not involved in any editorial decisions related to the publication of this article, and all author details were blinded to the article’s peer reviewers as per the journal’s double-blind peer review policy

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