Comparative genomics reveals differences in mobile virulence genes of Escherichia coli O103 pathotypes of bovine fecal origin

• Lance W. Noll,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

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• Jay N. Worley,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition and Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

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• Xun Yang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition and Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

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• Pragathi B. Shridhar,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

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• Justin B. Ludwig,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

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• Xiaorong Shi,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

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• Jianfa Bai,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

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• Doina Caragea,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Computing and Information Sciences, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

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• Jianghong Meng,

  Roles Project administration

  Affiliation Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition and Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

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• T. G. Nagaraja

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: tnagaraj@vet.k-state.edu

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0899-878X

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