Horizontal Gene Transfer of a ColV Plasmid Has Resulted in a Dominant Avian Clonal Type of Salmonella enterica Serovar Kentucky

• Timothy J. Johnson ,

  * E-mail: joh04207@umn.edu

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Jessica L. Thorsness,

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Cole P. Anderson,

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, United States of America

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• Aaron M. Lynne,

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, United States of America

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• Steven L. Foley,

  Affiliation Division of Microbiology, National Center for Toxicological Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Jing Han,

  Affiliation Division of Microbiology, National Center for Toxicological Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, Arkansas, United States of America

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• W. Florian Fricke,

  Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Patrick F. McDermott,

  Affiliation Division of Animal and Food Microbiology, Office of Research, Center for Veterinary Medicine, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Laurel, Maryland, United States of America

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• David G. White,

  Affiliation Division of Animal and Food Microbiology, Office of Research, Center for Veterinary Medicine, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Laurel, Maryland, United States of America

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• Mahesh Khatri,

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Adam L. Stell,

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Cristian Flores,

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Randall S. Singer

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

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