Asymptomatic carriage of Neisseria meningitidis, Haemophilus influenzae, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Group A Streptococcus and Staphylococcus aureus among adults aged 65 years and older

• Maria Drayß,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, National Reference Centre for Meningococci and Haemophilus influenzae, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

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• Heike Claus,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, National Reference Centre for Meningococci and Haemophilus influenzae, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

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• Kerstin Hubert,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, National Reference Centre for Meningococci and Haemophilus influenzae, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

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• Katrin Thiel,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, National Reference Centre for Meningococci and Haemophilus influenzae, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

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• Anja Berger,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, National Consulting Laboratory for Diphtheria, Oberschleißheim, Germany

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• Andreas Sing,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, National Consulting Laboratory for Diphtheria, Oberschleißheim, Germany

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• Mark van der Linden,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, National Reference Centre for Streptococci, University Hospital (RWTH), Aachen, Germany

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• Ulrich Vogel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, National Reference Centre for Meningococci and Haemophilus influenzae, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

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• Thiên-Trí Lâm

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

  * E-mail: ttlam@hygiene.uni-wuerzburg.de

  Affiliation Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, National Reference Centre for Meningococci and Haemophilus influenzae, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3001-0149

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