Genomic analysis of multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli from Urban Environmental water sources in Accra, Ghana, Provides Insights into public health implications

• Rebecca Tettey ,

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

  * E-mail: beckyug@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Biological, Environmental, and Occupational Health Science, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2621-3720

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• Beverly Egyir,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Software, Supervision

  Affiliations West African Center for Global Environmental & Occupational Health, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana, Department of Bacteriology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

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• Prudence Tettey,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological, Environmental, and Occupational Health Science, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

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• John Arko-Mensah,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biological, Environmental, and Occupational Health Science, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana, West African Center for Global Environmental & Occupational Health, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

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• Samuel Ofori Addo,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

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• Christian Owusu-Nyantakyi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

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• William Boateng,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

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• Julius Fobil

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation West African Center for Global Environmental & Occupational Health, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

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