Prevalence and serotypes of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) in dairy cattle from Northern Portugal

• Andressa Ballem,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations National Institute for Agrarian and Veterinary Research, Vairão, Vila do Conde, Portugal, Veterinary Science Department, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal, Farroupilha Federal Institute, Campus of São Vicente do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, São Vicente do Sul, Brazil, Centre for the Research and Technology of Agro-Environmental and Biological Science, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal, Centro de Investigação de Montanha, School of Agriculture, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Bragança, Portugal

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• Soraia Gonçalves,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation National Institute for Agrarian and Veterinary Research, Vairão, Vila do Conde, Portugal

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• Isidro Garcia-Meniño,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliations Laboratorio de Referencia de E. coli, Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Veterinary Faculty, University of Santiago de Compostela, Lugo, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

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• Saskia C. Flament-Simon,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliations Laboratorio de Referencia de E. coli, Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Veterinary Faculty, University of Santiago de Compostela, Lugo, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

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• Jesús E. Blanco,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliations Laboratorio de Referencia de E. coli, Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Veterinary Faculty, University of Santiago de Compostela, Lugo, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

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• Conceição Fernandes,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centro de Investigação de Montanha, School of Agriculture, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Bragança, Portugal

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• Maria José Saavedra,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Veterinary Science Department, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal, Centre for the Research and Technology of Agro-Environmental and Biological Science, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal

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• Carlos Pinto,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Current address: Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e do Ambiente, University of Azores, Angra do Heroísmo, Portugal

  Affiliation National Institute for Agrarian and Veterinary Research, Vairão, Vila do Conde, Portugal

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• Hugo Oliveira ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: carina.almeida@iniav.pt (CA); hugooliveira@deb.uminho.pt (HO)

  Affiliation Centre of Biological Engineering, University of Minho, Campus of Gualtar, Braga, Portugal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9564-5714

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• Jorge Blanco,

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

  Affiliations Laboratorio de Referencia de E. coli, Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Veterinary Faculty, University of Santiago de Compostela, Lugo, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

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• Gonçalo Almeida,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Institute for Agrarian and Veterinary Research, Vairão, Vila do Conde, Portugal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1513-0951

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• Carina Almeida

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: carina.almeida@iniav.pt (CA); hugooliveira@deb.uminho.pt (HO)

  Affiliation National Institute for Agrarian and Veterinary Research, Vairão, Vila do Conde, Portugal

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