Ribotype 078 Clostridium difficile infection incidence in Dutch hospitals is not associated with provincial pig farming: Results from a national sentinel surveillance, 2009-2015

• Sofie M. van Dorp ,

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

  * E-mail: sofievandorp@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7971-4126

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• Sabine C. de Greeff,

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

  Affiliation Centre for Infectious Disease Control, the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands

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• Céline Harmanus,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands

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• Ingrid M. J. G. Sanders,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands

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• Olaf M. Dekkers,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands

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• Cornelis W. Knetsch,

  Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands

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• Greetje A. Kampinga,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands

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• Daan W. Notermans,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Infectious Disease Control, the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands

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• Ed J. Kuijper

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

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands

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