Molecular characterization of vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated from clinical samples: A three year study in Tehran, Iran

• Marjan Shekarabi,

  Roles Investigation, Software, Validation

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Microbiology Department, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

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• Bahareh Hajikhani,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Alireza Salimi Chirani,

  Roles Investigation, Software, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Maryam Fazeli,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation WHO Collaborating Center for Reference and Research on Rabies, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

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• Mehdi Goudarzi

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

  * E-mail: gudarzim@yahoo.com

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6720-9341

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