SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant remains viable in environmental biofilms found in meat packaging plants

• Austin B. Featherstone,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Arnold J. T. M. Mathijssen,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

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• Amanda Brown,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation

  Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Texas, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Sapna Chitlapilly Dass

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

  * E-mail: sapna.dass@ag.tamu.edu

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5039-3549

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