Redefining enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC): Genomic characterization of epidemiological EAEC strains

• Nadia Boisen ,

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

  * E-mail: nbo@ssi.dk

  Affiliation Statens Serum Institut, Department of Bacteria, Parasites and Fungi, Copenhagen, Denmark

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1519-793X

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• Mark T. Østerlund,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Statens Serum Institut, Department of Bacteria, Parasites and Fungi, Copenhagen, Denmark

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7707-3940

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• Katrine G. Joensen,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Statens Serum Institut, Department of Bacteria, Parasites and Fungi, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Araceli E. Santiago,

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

  Affiliation University of Virginia School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

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• Inacio Mandomando,

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

  Affiliation Centro de Investigação em Saúde da Manhiça (CISM), Maputo, Mozambique

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• Alejandro Cravioto,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Faculty of Medicine, Mexico City, Mexico

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• Marie A. Chattaway,

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

  Affiliation Public Health England, Gastrointestinal Bacteria Reference Unit (GBRU), Colindale, United Kingdom

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• Laura A. Gonyar,

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

  Affiliation University of Virginia School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

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• Søren Overballe-Petersen,

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

  Affiliation Statens Serum Institut, Department of Bacteria, Parasites and Fungi, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• O. Colin Stine,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3974-3752

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• David A. Rasko,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Maryland School of Medicine, Institute for Genome Sciences, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7337-7154

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• Flemming Scheutz,

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

  Affiliation Statens Serum Institut, Department of Bacteria, Parasites and Fungi, Copenhagen, Denmark

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3931-4846

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• James P. Nataro

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

  Affiliation University of Virginia School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

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