Novel reusable animal model for comparative evaluation of in vivo growth and protein-expression of Escherichia coli O157 strains in the bovine rumen

• Indira T. Kudva ,

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

  * E-mail: Indira.Kudva@usda.govs

  Affiliation Food Safety and Enteric Pathogens Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6750-7867

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• Julian Trachsel,

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

  Affiliation Food Safety and Enteric Pathogens Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2357-7737

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• Erika N. Biernbaum,

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

  Affiliations Food Safety and Enteric Pathogens Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), ARS Research Participation Program, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

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• Thomas Casey

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Food Safety and Enteric Pathogens Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa

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