ESBL colonization and acquisition in a hospital population: The molecular epidemiology and transmission of resistance genes

• Stefan Hagel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Stefan Hagel, Oliwia Makarewicz

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

  Affiliation Institute of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

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• Oliwia Makarewicz ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Stefan Hagel, Oliwia Makarewicz

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: oliwia.makarewicz@med.uni-jena.de

  Affiliations Institute of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany, Infectognostics Research Campus, Jena, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4404-1862

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• Anita Hartung,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6262-3946

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• Daniel Weiß,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany, Infectognostics Research Campus, Jena, Germany, Abbott (Alere Technologies GmbH), Jena, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0706-3031

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• Claudia Stein,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany, Infectognostics Research Campus, Jena, Germany

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• Christian Brandt,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany, Infectognostics Research Campus, Jena, Germany

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• Ulrike Schumacher,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Clinical Studies, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4546-8497

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• Ralf Ehricht,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (IPHT), Jena, Germany

  Affiliations Infectognostics Research Campus, Jena, Germany, Abbott (Alere Technologies GmbH), Jena, Germany

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• Vladimir Patchev,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Institute of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany, Center for Clinical Studies, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

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• Mathias W. Pletz

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany, Infectognostics Research Campus, Jena, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8157-2753

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