Epidemiology and molecular characterization of Staphylococcus aureus causing bovine mastitis in water buffaloes from the Hazara division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

• Salma Javed,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan

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• JoAnn McClure,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance, Alberta Health Services/Alberta Precision Laboratories/University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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• Muhammad Ali Syed ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: syedali@uoh.edu.pk (MAS); kzhang@ucalgary.ca (KZ)

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, The University of Haripur, Haripur, Pakistan

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• Osahon Obasuyi,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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• Shahzad Ali,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Wildlife and Ecology, One Health Research Group, Discipline of Zoology, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

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• Sadia Tabassum,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan

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• Mohammad Ejaz,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, The University of Haripur, Haripur, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1339-5537

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• Kunyan Zhang

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

  * E-mail: syedali@uoh.edu.pk (MAS); kzhang@ucalgary.ca (KZ)

  Affiliations Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance, Alberta Health Services/Alberta Precision Laboratories/University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, The Calvin, Phoebe and Joan Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1078-6011

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