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Anna Didkowska1 \*, Monika Krajewska-Wędzina2 , Blanka Orłowska1 , Monika Kozińska3 , Ewa Augustynowicz-Kopeć3 and Krzysztof Anusz1

1 Department of Food Hygiene and Public Health Protection, Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), Warsaw, Poland

2 Department of Microbiology, National Veterinary Research Institute, Puławy, Poland

3 Department of Microbiology, National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, National Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland

\*Address all correspondence to: anna\_didkowska@sggw.edu.pl

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