Impact of the choice of reference genome on the ability of the core genome SNV methodology to distinguish strains of Salmonella enterica serovar Heidelberg

• Valentine Usongo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratoire de Santé Publique du Québec, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Québec, Canada, Department of Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Food Safety and Quality Program, McGill University, Ste Anne de Bellevue, Québec, Canada

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• Chrystal Berry,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Enteric Diseases, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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• Khadidja Yousfi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Laboratoire de Santé Publique du Québec, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Québec, Canada

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• Florence Doualla-Bell,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratoire de Santé Publique du Québec, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Québec, Canada

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• Genevieve Labbé,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory at Guelph, Public Health Agency of Canada, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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• Roger Johnson,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory at Guelph, Public Health Agency of Canada, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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• Eric Fournier,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Laboratoire de Santé Publique du Québec, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Québec, Canada

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• Celine Nadon,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Enteric Diseases, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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• Lawrence Goodridge,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Food Safety and Quality Program, McGill University, Ste Anne de Bellevue, Québec, Canada

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• Sadjia Bekal

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sadjia.bekal@inspq.qc.ca

  Affiliations Laboratoire de Santé Publique du Québec, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Québec, Canada, Département de Microbiologie, Infectiologie et Immunologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9840-0114

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