Long-read sequencing to interrogate strain-level variation among adherent-invasive Escherichia coli isolated from human intestinal tissue

• Jeremy Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jeremy Wang, Rachel M. Bleich

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0673-9418

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• Rachel M. Bleich ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jeremy Wang, Rachel M. Bleich

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America

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• Sandra Zarmer,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America

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• Shiying Zhang,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

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• Belgin Dogan,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

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• Kenneth W. Simpson,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

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• Janelle C. Arthur

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

  * E-mail: janelle_arthur@med.unc.edu

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America, Center for Gastrointestinal Biology & Disease, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4796-0207

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