Low prevalence of human enteropathogenic Yersinia spp. in brown rats (Rattus norvegicus) in Flanders

• 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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• Kristof Baert,

  Affiliation Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Brussels, Belgium

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• Anne-Marie Van den Abeele,

  Affiliation Microbiology Laboratory, AZ Sint Lucas Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

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• Ivo Cox,

  Affiliation Microbiology Laboratory, AZ Sint Lucas Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

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• Gerty Vanantwerpen,

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

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• Lieven De Zutter,

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

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• Diederik Strubbe,

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Antwerp University, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Katleen Vranckx,

  Affiliation Applied Maths NV, Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium

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• Luc Lens,

  Affiliation Terrestrial Ecology Unit, Department of Biology, 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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• Michel Delmée,

  Affiliation Institute of Experimental and Clinical Research, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, 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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