Characterisation of a pESI-like plasmid and analysis of multi-drug resistant Salmonella enterica Infantis isolates in England and Wales

TJD and DRG is affiliated to (and JM was supported by) the National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit (NIHR HPRU) in Gastrointestinal Infections at University of Liverpool in partnership with Public Health England (PHE), in collaboration with the University of Warwick, and are based at PHE. The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR, the Department of Health and Social Care or Public Health England. GCL, AEM, JRW and SB are supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Institute Strategic Programme Microbes in the Food Chain BB/R012504/1 and its constituent project BBS/E/F/000PR10348. AME acknowledges support from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Imperial Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), and declares funding from Shionogi & Co., Ltd for an unrelated project