Prevalence and distribution of multilocus sequence types of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from bulk tank milk and cows with mastitis in Pennsylvania

• Asha Thomas,

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

  Current address: Hematology/Oncology, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

  Affiliation Penn State Animal Diagnostic Laboratory, Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0293-5403

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• Shubhada Chothe,

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

  Affiliation Penn State Animal Diagnostic Laboratory, Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Maurice Byukusenge,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Rwanda, Nyagatare, Rwanda

  Affiliation Penn State Animal Diagnostic Laboratory, Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2548-1299

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• Tammy Mathews,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Penn State Animal Diagnostic Laboratory, Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Traci Pierre,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Penn State Animal Diagnostic Laboratory, Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Subhashinie Kariyawasam,

  Roles Data curation, Supervision

  Current address: Department of Comparative, Diagnostic, and Population Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

  Affiliation Penn State Animal Diagnostic Laboratory, Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Erin Luley,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Penn State Animal Diagnostic Laboratory, Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Suresh Kuchipudi,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Penn State Animal Diagnostic Laboratory, Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Bhushan Jayarao

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bmj3@psu.edu

  Affiliation Penn State Animal Diagnostic Laboratory, Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0594-4612

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