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Comparative genomic analysis provides insight into the phylogeny and virulence of atypical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli strains from Brazil

• Rodrigo T. Hernandes ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: rt.hernandes@unesp.br

  Affiliation Departamento de Microbiologia e Imunologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" (UNESP), Botucatu, SP, Brasil

  ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6695-6003

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• Tracy H. Hazen,

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

  Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Luís F. dos Santos,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto Adolfo Lutz, São Paulo, SP, Brasil

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• Taylor K. S. Richter,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

  ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6547-793X

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• Jane M. Michalski,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• David A. Rasko

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

  Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

  ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7337-7154

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