Clonal diversity and spatial dissemination of multi-antibiotics resistant Staphylococcus aureus pathotypes in Southwest Nigeria

• Akinniyi Paul Akinduti ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Akinniyi Paul Akinduti, Joshua Adekunle Osiyemi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: paul.akinduti@covenantuniversity.edu.ng

  Affiliation Microbiology Unit, Department of Biological Sciences, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0697-8176

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• Joshua Adekunle Osiyemi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Akinniyi Paul Akinduti, Joshua Adekunle Osiyemi

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria

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• Temitope Temitayo Banjo ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Crawford University, Igbesa, Ogun State, Nigeria

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• Oluwaseun Ejilude ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Microbiology Laboratory, Sacred Heart Hospital, Lantoro, Abeokuta, Nigeria

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• Maged El-Ashker ,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

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• Adewale Gideon Adeyemi ,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Civil Engineering, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria

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• Yemisi Dorcas Obafemi ,

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

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Microbiology Unit, Department of Biological Sciences, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria

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• Patrick Omoregie Isibor

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

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Microbiology Unit, Department of Biological Sciences, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria

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