Molecular epidemiology and antimicrobial susceptibility of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli isolated from children under age five with and without diarrhea in Central Ethiopia

• Tizazu Zenebe Zelelie ,

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

  * E-mail: tizazuzenebe@yahoo.com, zelelietizazu@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Debre Berhan University, Debre Birhan, Ethiopia, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Armeur Hansen Research Institue (AHRI), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4607-944X

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• Tadesse Eguale,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Aklilu Lemma Institute of Pathobiology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Ohio State University Global One Health LLC, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Berhanu Yitayew,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Debre Berhan University, Debre Birhan, Ethiopia

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• Dessalegn Abeje,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Armeur Hansen Research Institue (AHRI), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Ashenafi Alemu,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Armeur Hansen Research Institue (AHRI), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6763-0686

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• Aminu Seman,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Jana Jass,

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

  Affiliation The Life Science Centre—Biology, School of Science and Technology, Orebro University, Örebro, Sweden

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• Adane Mihret,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Armeur Hansen Research Institue (AHRI), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Tamrat Abebe

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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