Carriage of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus by Wild Urban Norway Rats (Rattus norvegicus)

• Chelsea G. Himsworth ,

  * E-mail: Chelsea.Himsworth@gov.bc.ca

  Affiliations School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Animal Health Centre, British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture, Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada

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• Ruth R. Miller,

  Affiliation Animal Health Centre, British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture, Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada

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• Vincent Montoya,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• Linda Hoang,

  Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• Marc G. Romney,

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• Ghada N. Al-Rawahi,

  Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Children's and Women's Health Centre of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• Thomas Kerr,

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• Claire M. Jardine,

  Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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• David M. Patrick,

  Affiliation School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• Patrick Tang,

  Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• J. Scott Weese

  Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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