Quantitative surveillance of shiga toxins 1 and 2, Escherichia coli O178 and O157 in feces of western-Canadian slaughter cattle enumerated by droplet digital PCR with a focus on seasonality and slaughterhouse location

• Sarah-Jo Paquette,

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

  Affiliations Alberta Agriculture and Forestry, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9694-9039

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• Kim Stanford,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Alberta Agriculture and Forestry, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8784-0042

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• James Thomas,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

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• Tim Reuter

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

  * E-mail: tim.reuter@gov.ab.ca

  Affiliation Alberta Agriculture and Forestry, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0593-3163

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