Development of a duplex qPCR for the differentiation of a live attenuated Escherichia coli aroA mutant vaccine strain from field isolates in chickens

• Kirsten Leurs,

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

  Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, Livestock Gut Health Team (LiGHT) Ghent, Pharmacology and Zoological Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

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• Evy Goossens,

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

  Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, Livestock Gut Health Team (LiGHT) Ghent, Pharmacology and Zoological Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6476-5932

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• Henrik Christensen,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Frederiksberg C, Denmark

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4238-4658

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• Jacques G. Mainil,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Bacteriology Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Centre for Fundamental and Applied Research in Animals and Health (FARAH), University of Liège (ULiège), Liège, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8520-0834

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• Dieter Vancraeynest,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Zoetis, Parsippany, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Richard Ducatelle,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, Livestock Gut Health Team (LiGHT) Ghent, Pharmacology and Zoological Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

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• Filip Van Immerseel

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: Filip.vanimmerseel@ugent.be

  Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, Livestock Gut Health Team (LiGHT) Ghent, Pharmacology and Zoological Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

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