High genetic similarity between non-typhoidal Salmonella isolated from paired blood and stool samples of children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Marie-France Phoba ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marie-France Phoba, Barbara Barbé

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Department of Microbiology, University Hospital of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Barbara Barbé ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marie-France Phoba, Barbara Barbé

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bbarbe@itg.be

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4978-3379

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• Benedikt Ley,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Global and Tropical Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Australia

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Sandra Van Puyvelde,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Laboratory of Medical Microbiology, Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8434-5732

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• Annelies Post,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Radboud Center for Infectious Diseases, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Wesley Mattheus,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Human Bacterial Diseases, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium

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• Stijn Deborggraeve,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Médecins Sans Frontières—Access Campaign, Geneva, Switzerland

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Octavie Lunguya,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Department of Microbiology, University Hospital of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Jan Jacobs

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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