Assessment of microbiological correlates and immunostimulatory potential of electron beam inactivated metabolically active yet non culturable (MAyNC) Salmonella Typhimurium

• Chandni Praveen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chandni Praveen, Sohini S. Bhatia, Robert C. Alaniz, Palmy R. Jesudhasan, Suresh D. Pillai

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Center for Electron Beam Research-an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Collaborating Centre for Electron Beam Technology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States of America

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• Sohini S. Bhatia ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chandni Praveen, Sohini S. Bhatia, Robert C. Alaniz, Palmy R. Jesudhasan, Suresh D. Pillai

  Roles Data curation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Center for Electron Beam Research-an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Collaborating Centre for Electron Beam Technology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States of America

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• Robert C. Alaniz ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chandni Praveen, Sohini S. Bhatia, Robert C. Alaniz, Palmy R. Jesudhasan, Suresh D. Pillai

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization

  * E-mail: s-pillai@tamu.edu (SDP); alaniz@medicine.tamhsc.edu (RCA)

  Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, College Station, TX, United States of America

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• Robert E. Droleskey ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Food and Feed Safety Research Unit, Southern Plains Agricultural Research Center, USDA-ARS, College Station, TX, United States of America

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• Noah D. Cohen ,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0384-2903

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• Palmy R. Jesudhasan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chandni Praveen, Sohini S. Bhatia, Robert C. Alaniz, Palmy R. Jesudhasan, Suresh D. Pillai

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Poultry Production and Product Safety, USDA-ARS, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States of America

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• Suresh D. Pillai

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chandni Praveen, Sohini S. Bhatia, Robert C. Alaniz, Palmy R. Jesudhasan, Suresh D. Pillai

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: s-pillai@tamu.edu (SDP); alaniz@medicine.tamhsc.edu (RCA)

  Affiliation National Center for Electron Beam Research-an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Collaborating Centre for Electron Beam Technology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States of America

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