Hormonal contraceptive use and Staphylococcus aureus nasal and throat carriage in a Norwegian youth population

• Dina B. Stensen ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dina.b.stensen@uit.no

  Affiliations Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, Division of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9956-5498

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• Lars Småbrekke,

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

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

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• Karina Olsen,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway

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• Guri Grimnes,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway, Endocrinology Research Group, Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

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• Christopher Sivert Nielsen,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Ageing and Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway, Department of Pain Management and Research, Division of Emergencies and Intensive Care, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

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• Gunnar Skov Simonsen,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway, Research Group for Host-Microbe Interaction, Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

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• Johanna U. E. Sollid,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Group for Host-Microbe Interaction, Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

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• Anne-Sofie Furberg

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway

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