Hospital-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: A cross-sectional analysis of risk factors in South African tertiary public hospitals

• Liliwe L. Shuping,

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

  Affiliations School of Health Systems and Public Health, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, South African Field Epidemiology Training Programme, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa, Centre for Healthcare-Associated Infections, Antimicrobial Resistance and Mycoses, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1428-779X

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• Lazarus Kuonza,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Health Systems and Public Health, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, South African Field Epidemiology Training Programme, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Alfred Musekiwa,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Samantha Iyaloo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Institute for Occupational Health, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Olga Perovic

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: olgap@nicd.ac.za

  Affiliations Centre for Healthcare-Associated Infections, Antimicrobial Resistance and Mycoses, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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