Nasal carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) at a palliative care unit: A prospective single service analysis

• Maria Heckel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Heckel, Walter Geißdörfer

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

  * E-mail: maria.heckel@uk-erlangen.de (MH); walter.geissdoerfer@uk-erlangen.de (WG)

  ¶‡ MH and WG should be considered as joint first authors. CO and CB share the senior authorship.

  Affiliation Department of Palliative Medicine, Comprehensive Cancer Center CCC Erlangen-EMN, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6212-2562

  ⨯
• Walter Geißdörfer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Heckel, Walter Geißdörfer

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: maria.heckel@uk-erlangen.de (MH); walter.geissdoerfer@uk-erlangen.de (WG)

  ¶‡ MH and WG should be considered as joint first authors. CO and CB share the senior authorship.

  Affiliation Mikrobiologisches Institut - Klinische Mikrobiologie, Immunologie und Hygiene, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

  ⨯
• Franziska A. Herbst,

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

  Affiliation Institute for General Practice, Hannover Medical School, Germany

  ⨯
• Stephanie Stiel,

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

  Affiliation Institute for General Practice, Hannover Medical School, Germany

  ⨯
• Christoph Ostgathe ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ MH and WG should be considered as joint first authors. CO and CB share the senior authorship.

  Affiliation Department of Palliative Medicine, Comprehensive Cancer Center CCC Erlangen-EMN, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

  ⨯
• Christian Bogdan

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

  ¶‡ MH and WG should be considered as joint first authors. CO and CB share the senior authorship.

  Affiliation Mikrobiologisches Institut - Klinische Mikrobiologie, Immunologie und Hygiene, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

  ⨯