A national study confirms that Escherichia coli from Australian commercial layer hens remain susceptible to critically important antimicrobials

• Rebecca Abraham,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Antimicrobial Resistance and Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

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• Hui San Allison,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Antimicrobial Resistance and Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

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• Terence Lee,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Antimicrobial Resistance and Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

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• Anthony Pavic,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Birling Avian Laboratories, Bringelly, New South Wales, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8830-1806

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• Raymond Chia,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Australian Eggs, North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Kylie Hewson,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Sativus Pty Ltd, Beenleigh, Queensland, Australia

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• Zheng Zhou Lee,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Antimicrobial Resistance and Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

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• David J. Hampson,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Antimicrobial Resistance and Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7729-0427

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• David Jordan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation New South Wales Department of Primary industries, Wollongbar, New South Wales, Australia

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• Sam Abraham

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

  * E-mail: s.abraham@murdoch.edu.au

  Affiliation Antimicrobial Resistance and Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0950-2317

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