Effect of meteorological factors and geographic location on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant enterococci colonization in the US

• Natalia Blanco ,

  * E-mail: nblanco@som.umaryland.edu

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3157-1119

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• Eli Perencevich,

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, United States of America

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• Shan Shan Li,

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Indiana University Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indianapolis, United States of America

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• Daniel J. Morgan,

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, United States of America, VA Maryland Healthcare System, Baltimore, United States of America

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• Lisa Pineles,

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, United States of America

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• J. Kristie Johnson,

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, United States of America

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• Gwen Robinson,

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, United States of America

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• Deverick J. Anderson,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, United States of America

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• Jesse T. Jacob,

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, United States of America

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• Lisa L. Maragakis,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, United States of America

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• Anthony D. Harris,

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, United States of America

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• for the CDC Prevention Epicenter Program

  ¶Membership of CDC Epicenters Program is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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