House Sparrows Do Not Constitute a Significant Salmonella Typhimurium Reservoir across Urban Gradients in Flanders, Belgium

• Lieze Oscar Rouffaer ,

  * E-mail: Lieze.Rouffaer@UGent.be

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and Avian Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

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• Luc Lens,

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Terrestrial Ecology Unit, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Roel Haesendonck,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and Avian Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

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• Aimeric Teyssier,

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Terrestrial Ecology Unit, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Noraine Salleh Hudin,

  Affiliations Department of Biology, Terrestrial Ecology Unit, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science & Mathematics, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, Perak, Malaysia

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• Diederik Strubbe,

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Terrestrial Ecology Unit, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Freddy Haesebrouck,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and Avian Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

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• Frank Pasmans,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and Avian Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

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• An Martel

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Bacteriology and Avian Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

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