Urban rats as carriers of invasive Salmonella Typhimurium sequence type 313, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo

• Dadi Falay,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital of Kisangani, Kisangani, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Liselotte Hardy ,

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

  * E-mail: lhardy@itg.be

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8785-5081

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• Jacques Tanzito,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biodiversity Monitoring Center (Centre de Surveillance de la Biodiversité, CSB), Faculty of Science, University of Kisangani, Kisangani, the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Octavie Lunguya,

  Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical Biology, National Institute for Biomedical Research, Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Department of Microbiology, University Teaching Hospital of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Edmonde Bonebe,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Biology, National Institute for Biomedical Research, Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Marjan Peeters,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

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

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• Wesley Mattheus,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Sciensano, Infectious Diseases in Humans, Bacterial Diseases, Brussels, Belgium

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• Chris Van Geet,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Sciences and Pediatrics, KU Leuven and University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Erik Verheyen,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations OD Taxonomy & Phylogeny, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium, Evolutionary Ecology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Dudu Akaibe,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biodiversity Monitoring Center (Centre de Surveillance de la Biodiversité, CSB), Faculty of Science, University of Kisangani, Kisangani, the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Pionus Katuala,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biodiversity Monitoring Center (Centre de Surveillance de la Biodiversité, CSB), Faculty of Science, University of Kisangani, Kisangani, the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Dauly Ngbonda,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital of Kisangani, Kisangani, the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• François-Xavier Weill,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Unité des bactéries pathogènes entériques, Paris, France

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• Maria Pardos de la Gandara,

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

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Unité des bactéries pathogènes entériques, Paris, France

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• Jan Jacobs

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

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

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