Antibiotic-resistant indicator bacteria in irrigation water: High prevalence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Escherichia coli

• Maria-Theresia Gekenidis,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Microbiology of Plant Foods, Agroscope, Waedenswil, Switzerland, Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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• Weihong Qi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Functional Genomics Center Zurich, ETH Zurich and University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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• Jörg Hummerjohann,

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

  Affiliation Microbiological Safety of Foods of Animal Origin, Agroscope, Liebefeld, Switzerland

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• Reinhard Zbinden,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Swiss Expert Committee for Biosafety (SECB), Bern, Switzerland

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• Fiona Walsh,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland

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• David Drissner

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: drissner@hs-albsig.de

  Affiliations Microbiology of Plant Foods, Agroscope, Waedenswil, Switzerland, Department of Life Sciences, Albstadt-Sigmaringen University, Sigmaringen, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1173-749X

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