High relatedness of invasive multi-drug resistant non-typhoidal Salmonella genotypes among patients and asymptomatic carriers in endemic informal settlements in Kenya

• Samuel Kariuki ,

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

  * E-mail: Samkariuki2@gmail.com, skariuki@kemri.org

  Affiliation Centre for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3209-9503

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• Cecilia Mbae,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Centre for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Sandra Van Puyvelde,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Laboratory of Medical Microbiology, Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Parasites and Microbes, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Robert Onsare,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Centre for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Susan Kavai,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Centre for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Celestine Wairimu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Centre for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Ronald Ngetich,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Centre for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

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• John Clemens,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Office of the Executive Director, International Diarrheal Diseases Research Centre, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Gordon Dougan

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cambridge Institute for Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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