MRSA Carriage in Community Outpatients: A Cross-Sectional Prevalence Study in a High-Density Livestock Farming Area along the Dutch-German Border

• John Paget ,

  * E-mail: j.paget@nivel.nl

  Affiliations Radboud University Medical Center, Department of Primary and Community Care, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (NIVEL), Utrecht, the Netherlands

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• Helen Aangenend,

  Affiliations Radboud University Medical Center, Department of Primary and Community Care, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, GGD Gelderland-Zuid (Municipal Health Service Gelderland-South), Nijmegen, the Netherlands

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• Malte Kühn,

  Affiliation University Hospital Münster, Institute of Hygiene, Münster, Germany

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• Jeannine Hautvast,

  Affiliations Radboud University Medical Center, Department of Primary and Community Care, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, GGD Gelderland-Zuid (Municipal Health Service Gelderland-South), Nijmegen, the Netherlands

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• Desiree van Oorschot,

  Affiliation Radboud University Medical Center, Department of Primary and Community Care, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

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• Alphons Olde Loohuis,

  Affiliation Radboud University Medical Center, Department of Primary and Community Care, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

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• Koos van der Velden,

  Affiliation Radboud University Medical Center, Department of Primary and Community Care, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

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• Alexander W. Friedrich,

  Affiliation University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Medical Microbiology, Groningen, the Netherlands

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• Andreas Voss,

  Affiliations Canisius-Wilhelmina Hospital, Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, Radboud University Medical Center, Department of Medical Microbiology, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

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• Robin Köck

  Affiliation University Hospital Münster, Institute of Hygiene, Münster, Germany

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