Pathogenomics and clinical recurrence influence biofilm capacity of Escherichia coli isolated from canine urinary tract infections

• Gregory A. Ballash,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0050-6154

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• Dixie F. Mollenkopf,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Dubraska Diaz-Campos,

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

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Joany C. van Balen,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Rachel E. Cianciolo,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Biosciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Thomas E. Wittum

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: wittum.1@osu.edu

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9216-1308

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