Association between rectal colonization with Highly Resistant Gram-negative Rods (HR-GNRs) and subsequent infection with HR-GNRs in clinical patients: A one year historical cohort study

• Dennis Souverein ,

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

  * E-mail: d.souverein@streeklabhaarlem.nl

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Infection Prevention, Regional Public Health Laboratory Kennemerland, Haarlem, the Netherlands

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0455-0336

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• Sjoerd M. Euser,

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

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Infection Prevention, Regional Public Health Laboratory Kennemerland, Haarlem, the Netherlands

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• Bjorn L. Herpers,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Infection Prevention, Regional Public Health Laboratory Kennemerland, Haarlem, the Netherlands

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• Jan Kluytmans,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratory for Microbiology and Infection Control, Amphia Hospital, Breda, The Netherlands, University Medical Center, Utrecht, the Netherlands

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• John W. A. Rossen,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Jeroen W. Den Boer

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Infection Prevention, Regional Public Health Laboratory Kennemerland, Haarlem, the Netherlands

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