Attachment strength and on-farm die-off rate of Escherichia coli on watermelon surfaces

• Vijay Singh Chhetri,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation School of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, LA, United States of America

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• Kathryn Fontenot,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation School of Plant, Environmental, and Soil Sciences, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, LA, United States of America

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• Ronald Strahan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

  Affiliation School of Plant, Environmental, and Soil Sciences, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, LA, United States of America

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• Veerachandra K. Yemmireddy,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, LA, United States of America

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• Cameron Cason,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation School of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, LA, United States of America

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• Karuna Kharel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation School of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, LA, United States of America

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• Achyut Adhikari

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

  * E-mail: acadhikari@agcenter.lsu.edu

  Affiliation School of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, LA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3778-8754

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