Fast hospital discharge rates blur within-hospital ‘transmission footprint’ in bacterial genomes, as showcased with Staphylococcus aureus

• Sanni Översti ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: oeversti@gea.mpg.de (SÖ); kuehnertd@rki.de (DK)

  Affiliations Transmission, Infection, Diversification & Evolution Group, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7118-1281

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• Mathilde Boumasmoud,

  Roles Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Institute of Integrative Biology, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2265-3902

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• Huldyrch F. Günthard,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Institute of Medical Virology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1142-6723

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• Hugo Sax,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Infectious Diseases, Bern University Hospital and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Annelies S. Zinkernagel,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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• Roger D. Kouyos ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Roger D. Kouyos

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Institute of Medical Virology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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• Denise Kühnert

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: oeversti@gea.mpg.de (SÖ); kuehnertd@rki.de (DK)

  Affiliation Center for Artificial Intelligence In Public Health Research, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

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