Hotspot mutations and ColE1 plasmids contribute to the fitness of Salmonella Heidelberg in poultry litter

• Adelumola Oladeinde ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Adelumola Oladeinde, Kimberly Cook, Alex Orlek

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

  * E-mail: ade.oladeinde@ars.usda.gov

  Affiliation Bacterial Epidemiology and Antimicrobial Resistance Research Unit, U.S. National Poultry Research Center, USDA-ARS, Athens, GA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8659-7068

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• Kimberly Cook ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Adelumola Oladeinde, Kimberly Cook, Alex Orlek

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bacterial Epidemiology and Antimicrobial Resistance Research Unit, U.S. National Poultry Research Center, USDA-ARS, Athens, GA, United States of America

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• Alex Orlek ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Adelumola Oladeinde, Kimberly Cook, Alex Orlek

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

  Affiliation Nuffield Department of Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Greg Zock ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Bacterial Epidemiology and Antimicrobial Resistance Research Unit, U.S. National Poultry Research Center, USDA-ARS, Athens, GA, United States of America

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• Kyler Herrington ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States of America

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• Nelson Cox ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Poultry Microbiological Safety and Processing Research Unit, U.S. National Poultry Research Center, USDA-ARS, Athens, GA, United States of America

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• Jodie Plumblee Lawrence ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Bacterial Epidemiology and Antimicrobial Resistance Research Unit, U.S. National Poultry Research Center, USDA-ARS, Athens, GA, United States of America

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• Carolina Hall

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Bacterial Epidemiology and Antimicrobial Resistance Research Unit, U.S. National Poultry Research Center, USDA-ARS, Athens, GA, United States of America

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