Eskola, Katarina
Aimo-Koivisto, Elina
Heikinheimo, Annamari
Mykkänen, Anna
Hautajärvi, Tiina
Grönthal, Thomas
Funding for this research was provided by:
University of Helsinki
Article History
Received: 13 June 2024
Accepted: 2 September 2024
First Online: 13 September 2024
Declarations
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: The study was approved by the Viikki Campus Research Ethics Committee of the University of Helsinki (statement no. 10/2020). The guidelines of the Finnish Advisory Board on Research Integrity for good scientific practice were followed in the study design []. Informed owner consent to participate was obtained on the questionnaire form (Additional file ) for all participating horses.
: Parts of the preliminary results of the study (prevalence of ESBL-E on admission, whole-genome sequencing of <i>K. pneumoniae</i>) have been presented at the poster sessions of the 13th International Meeting on Microbial Epidemiological Markers (IMMEM XIII), Bath, United Kingdom [] and Finnish Veterinary Congress 2022, Helsinki, Finland [] and published in a non-peer-reviewed licentiate thesis project (in Finnish) related to veterinary studies (prevalence of ESBL-E on admission, questionnaire) [].
: Not applicable.
: Author TH is employed by Oy 4Pharma Ltd. The remaining authors declare that they have no competing interests.