Surface Survival and Internalization of Salmonella through Natural Cracks on Developing Cantaloupe Fruits, Alone or in the Presence of the Melon Wilt Pathogen Erwinia tracheiphila

• Dhiraj Gautam,

  Current address: Robert M. Kerr Food and Agricultural Productions Center, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

  Affiliation National Institute for Microbial Forensics & Food and Agricultural Biosecurity, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Shefali Dobhal,

  Affiliation National Institute for Microbial Forensics & Food and Agricultural Biosecurity, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Mark E. Payton,

  Affiliation Department of Statistics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Jacqueline Fletcher ,

  * E-mail: jacqueline.fletcher@okstate.edu (JF); li.ma@okstate.edu (LMM)

  Affiliation National Institute for Microbial Forensics & Food and Agricultural Biosecurity, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Li Maria Ma

  * E-mail: jacqueline.fletcher@okstate.edu (JF); li.ma@okstate.edu (LMM)

  Affiliation National Institute for Microbial Forensics & Food and Agricultural Biosecurity, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

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