Evolving threats: Leveraging C. elegans to decode the virulence profiles of highly related environmental Salmonella Newport isolates

• Christina M. Ferreira ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: christina.ferreira@fda.hhs.gov (CMF); ghazia@pitt.edu (AG)

  Affiliations Office of Applied Microbiology and Technology, Office of Laboratory Operations and Applied Science, Human Foods Program, United States Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Maryland – College Park, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6018-5885

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• Mirae Choe ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mirae Choe, Bella Wayhs

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

  Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics and Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; John G. Rangos Sr. Research Center, One Children's Hospital Drive, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0000-4833-9327

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• Bella Wayhs ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mirae Choe, Bella Wayhs

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

  Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics and Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; John G. Rangos Sr. Research Center, One Children's Hospital Drive, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Julie A. Haendiges,

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

  Current address: Theiagen Genomics, Highlands Ranch, Colorado, United States of America

  Affiliation Office of Applied Microbiology and Technology, Office of Laboratory Operations and Applied Science, Human Foods Program, United States Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

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• Robert Literman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Surveillance and Data Integration, Office of Surveillance Strategy & Risk Prioritization, Human Foods Program, United States Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1784-0407

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• Jianghong Meng,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Maryland – College Park, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

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• Arjuman Ghazi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: christina.ferreira@fda.hhs.gov (CMF); ghazia@pitt.edu (AG)

  Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics and Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; John G. Rangos Sr. Research Center, One Children's Hospital Drive, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Rebecca L. Bell

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Office of Applied Microbiology and Technology, Office of Laboratory Operations and Applied Science, Human Foods Program, United States Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7469-1946

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