About the Authors
- Zhemin Zhou
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Contributed equally to this work with: Zhemin Zhou, Angela McCann
Current address: Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
Affiliation Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
- Angela McCann
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Contributed equally to this work with: Zhemin Zhou, Angela McCann
Current address: Department of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
Affiliation Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
- Eva Litrup
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Current address: Statens Serum Institut, Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, Copenhagen, Denmark
Affiliation Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
- Ronan Murphy
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Affiliation Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
- Martin Cormican
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Affiliation National Salmonella Reference Laboratory, Bacteriology Department, Galway University Hospital, Galway, Ireland
- Seamus Fanning
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Affiliation University College Dublin Centre for Food Safety, School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Population Science, Dublin, Ireland
- Derek Brown
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Affiliation Scottish Salmonella, Shigella and Clostridium difficile Reference Laboratory, Microbiology Department, Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow, United Kingdom
- David S. Guttman
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Affiliation Centre for the Analysis of Genome Evolution and Function, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Sylvain Brisse
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Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Microbial Evolutionary Genomics Unit, Paris, France
- Mark Achtman
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* E-mail: achtmanmark@gmail.com
Current address: Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
Affiliation Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: ZZ AM EL SB MA. Performed the experiments: ZZ AM EL RM DB DSG SB. Analyzed the data: ZZ AM DB SB MA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZZ AM MC SF DB DSG SB. Wrote the paper: ZZ AM MA. Discussed the manuscript: ZZ AM EL MC DSG SB MA.