Closely related methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates from retail meat, cows with mastitis, and humans in Japan

• Tomomi Sato ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tomomi Sato, Masaru Usui

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Laboratory of Food Microbiology and Food Safety, Department of Health and Environmental Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen University, Ebetsu, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Masaru Usui ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tomomi Sato, Masaru Usui

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Food Microbiology and Food Safety, Department of Health and Environmental Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen University, Ebetsu, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Noriko Konishi ,

  Roles Investigation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Public Health, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Akemi Kai ,

  Roles Investigation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Tokyo Medical University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Hidehito Matsui ,

  Roles Investigation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Infection Control Research Center, Kitasato University, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Hideaki Hanaki ,

  Roles Investigation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Infection Control Research Center, Kitasato University, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Yutaka Tamura

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tamuray@rakuno.ac.jp

  Affiliation Laboratory of Food Microbiology and Food Safety, Department of Health and Environmental Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen University, Ebetsu, Hokkaido, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5920-5786

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