Prevalence of antibiotic resistance in commensal Escherichia coli among the children in rural hill communities of Northeast India

• Ashish Kumar Singh,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Sikkim University, Gangtok, Sikkim, India

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• Saurav Das,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Sikkim University, Gangtok, Sikkim, India

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• Samer Singh,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbial Biotechnology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

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• Varsha Rani Gajamer,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Sikkim University, Gangtok, Sikkim, India

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• Nilu Pradhan,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Sikkim University, Gangtok, Sikkim, India

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• Yangchen Doma Lepcha,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation State Institute of Rural Development, Government of Sikkim, Gangtok, Sikkim, India

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• Hare Krishna Tiwari

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

  * E-mail: hktiwari@cus.ac.in

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Sikkim University, Gangtok, Sikkim, India

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7773-5211

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