Diversity of Plasmids Encoding Virulence and Resistance Functions in Salmonella enterica subsp enterica Serovar Typhimurium Monophasic Variant 4,[5],12:i:- Strains Circulating in Europe

This work was supported by the EU Network of Excellence Med-Vet-Net (WP 21), the ‘‘Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria’’ of the ‘‘Instituto de Salud Carlos III’’ (FIS PI11-00808, Spain), co-funded by European Regional Development Fund of the European Union: a way to making Europe, and the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR: 46-001, 45-004, Germany). PG was the recipient of a grant from the ‘‘Fundación para el Fomento en Asturias de la Investigación Científica Aplicada y la Tecnología’’ (FICYT, Ref. BP08-031). She performed a short stay at the Department of Biological Safety of the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Berlin, Germany, supported by the same grant. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript