Sampling and Pooling Methods for Capturing Herd Level Antibiotic Resistance in Swine Feces using qPCR and CFU Approaches

• Gunilla Veslemøy Schmidt ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gunilla Veslemøy Schmidt, Lasse Engbo Christiansen, John Elmerdahl Olsen, Øystein Angen

  * E-mail: gunillavbn@hotmail.com

  Affiliation The National Veterinary Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Frederiksberg C, Denmark

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• Anders Mellerup ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation The National Veterinary Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Frederiksberg C, Denmark

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• Lasse Engbo Christiansen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gunilla Veslemøy Schmidt, Lasse Engbo Christiansen, John Elmerdahl Olsen, Øystein Angen

  Affiliation Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

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• Marie Ståhl ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation The National Veterinary Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Frederiksberg C, Denmark

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• John Elmerdahl Olsen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gunilla Veslemøy Schmidt, Lasse Engbo Christiansen, John Elmerdahl Olsen, Øystein Angen

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Denmark

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• Øystein Angen

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gunilla Veslemøy Schmidt, Lasse Engbo Christiansen, John Elmerdahl Olsen, Øystein Angen

  Current address: Norwegian Veterinary Institute, Oslo, Norway

  Affiliation The National Veterinary Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Frederiksberg C, Denmark

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