Do lower respiratory tract samples contribute to the assessment of carriage of Staphylococcus aureus in patients undergoing mechanical ventilation after major heart surgery?

• Emilio Bouza,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón (IiSGM), Madrid, Spain, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias-CIBERES (CB06/06/0058), Madrid, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6967-9267

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• Almudena Burillo ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  * E-mail: massus@hotmail.es (MJPG); almudena.burillo@gmail.com (AB)

  Affiliations Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón (IiSGM), Madrid, Spain, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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• Patricia Munoz,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón (IiSGM), Madrid, Spain, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias-CIBERES (CB06/06/0058), Madrid, Spain

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• Maricela Valerio,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliations Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón (IiSGM), Madrid, Spain

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• Jose Maria Barrio,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliations CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias-CIBERES (CB06/06/0058), Madrid, Spain, Cardiac Surgery Postoperative Care Unit, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain

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• Javier Hortal,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias-CIBERES (CB06/06/0058), Madrid, Spain, Cardiac Surgery Postoperative Care Unit, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain

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• Gregorio Cuerpo,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Cardiac Surgery Postoperative Care Unit, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain

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• Maria Jesus Perez-Granda

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: massus@hotmail.es (MJPG); almudena.burillo@gmail.com (AB)

  Affiliations Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón (IiSGM), Madrid, Spain, CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias-CIBERES (CB06/06/0058), Madrid, Spain, Cardiac Surgery Postoperative Care Unit, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain

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