The Environment as an Unrecognized Reservoir for Community-Associated Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus USA300: A Case-Control Study

• Anne-Catrin Uhlemann ,

  * E-mail: au2110@columbia.edu

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Justin Knox,

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Maureen Miller,

  Affiliation Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Cory Hafer,

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Glenny Vasquez,

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Megan Ryan,

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Peter Vavagiakis,

  Affiliation Panna Technologies, Inc., New York, New York, United States of America

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• Qiuhu Shi,

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, United States of America

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• Franklin D. Lowy

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Pathology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

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