Epidemiology of Clostridium difficile in infants in Oxfordshire, UK: Risk factors for colonization and carriage, and genetic overlap with regional C. difficile infection strains

• Nicole Stoesser ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nicole Stoesser, David W. Eyre, T. Phuong Quan

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nicole.stoesser@ndm.ox.ac.uk (NS); david.eyre@ndm.ox.ac.uk (DWE)

  Affiliations Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Oxford University, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, United Kingdom, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4508-7969

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• David W. Eyre ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nicole Stoesser, David W. Eyre, T. Phuong Quan

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nicole.stoesser@ndm.ox.ac.uk (NS); david.eyre@ndm.ox.ac.uk (DWE)

  Affiliations Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Oxford University, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, United Kingdom, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, United Kingdom

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• T. Phuong Quan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nicole Stoesser, David W. Eyre, T. Phuong Quan

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Oxford University, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, United Kingdom, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, United Kingdom

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• Heather Godwin,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Oxford University, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, United Kingdom

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• Gemma Pill,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Oxford University, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, United Kingdom

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• Emily Mbuvi,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Oxford University, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, United Kingdom

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• Alison Vaughan,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Oxford University, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, United Kingdom, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, United Kingdom

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• David Griffiths,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Oxford University, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, United Kingdom, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, United Kingdom

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• Jessica Martin,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Leeds Teaching Hospitals and University of Leeds, Department of Microbiology, Old Medical School, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, United Kingdom

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• Warren Fawley,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Public Health England (Leeds laboratory), Old Medical School, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, United Kingdom

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• Kate E. Dingle,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Oxford University, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, United Kingdom, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, United Kingdom

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• Sarah Oakley,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Microbiology Laboratory, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, United Kingdom

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• Kazimierz Wanelik,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Oxford University, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, United Kingdom

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• John M. Finney,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Oxford University, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, United Kingdom, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, United Kingdom

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• Melina Kachrimanidou,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University Campus, Thessaloniki, Greece

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• Catrin E. Moore,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Oxford University, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, United Kingdom

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• Sherwood Gorbach,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Thomas V. Riley,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Microbiology and Immunology, School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia

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• Derrick W. Crook,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Oxford University, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, United Kingdom, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, United Kingdom

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• Tim E. A. Peto,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Oxford University, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, United Kingdom, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, United Kingdom

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• Mark H. Wilcox,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Leeds Teaching Hospitals and University of Leeds, Department of Microbiology, Old Medical School, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, United Kingdom

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• A. Sarah Walker,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Oxford University, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, United Kingdom, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, United Kingdom

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• the Modernising Medical Microbiology Informatics Group (MMMIG)

  ¶The full authorship list for the MMMIG can be found in the Acknowledgments section

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