Surgical hand preparation in an equine hospital: Comparison of general practice with a standardised protocol and characterisation of the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus recovered

• Tina Rocktäschel,

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

  Affiliation Institute of Animal Hygiene and Veterinary Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Katharina Renner-Martin,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Mathematics, Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria

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• Christiane Cuny,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Robert Koch Institute, National Reference Centre for Staphylococci and Enterococci, Wernigerode, Germany

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• Walter Brehm,

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

  Affiliation Department for Horses, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Uwe Truyen,

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

  Affiliation Institute of Animal Hygiene and Veterinary Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Stephanie Speck

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: stephanie@speck-kaysser.de

  Affiliation Institute of Animal Hygiene and Veterinary Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4622-1303

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