Antibiotic resistance, virulence, and phylogenetic analysis of Escherichia coli strains isolated from free-living birds in human habitats

• Bartosz Rybak ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bartosz Rybak, Beata Krawczyk, Beata Furmanek-Blaszk

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Toxicology, Faculty of Health Sciences with Institute of Maritime and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland

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• Beata Krawczyk ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bartosz Rybak, Beata Krawczyk, Beata Furmanek-Blaszk

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: beata.krawczyk@pg.edu.pl

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Microbiology, Faculty of Chemistry, Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5528-8898

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• Beata Furmanek-Blaszk ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bartosz Rybak, Beata Krawczyk, Beata Furmanek-Blaszk

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland

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• Magdalena Wysocka,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Microbiology, Faculty of Chemistry, Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland

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• Magdalena Fordon,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Microbiology, Faculty of Chemistry, Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland

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• Pawel Ziolkowski,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland

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• Wlodzimierz Meissner,

  Roles Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Avian Ecophysiology Unit, Department of Vertebrate Ecology and Zoology, University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland

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• Katarzyna Stepniewska,

  Roles Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Avian Ecophysiology Unit, Department of Vertebrate Ecology and Zoology, University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland

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• Katarzyna Sikorska

  Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology—National Centre for Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Health Science with Institute of Maritime and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdynia, Poland

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