Absence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization among immunocompetent healthy adults: Insights from a longitudinal study

• Sónia T. Almeida,

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

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology of Human Pathogens, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal

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• A. Cristina Paulo,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology of Human Pathogens, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal

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• João Babo,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology of Human Pathogens, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal

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• João Borralho,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology of Human Pathogens, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal

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• Catarina Figueiredo,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology of Human Pathogens, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal

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• Bruno Gonçalves,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology of Human Pathogens, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2397-0048

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• João Lança,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology of Human Pathogens, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal

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• Mónica Louro,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology of Human Pathogens, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal

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• Hermes Morais,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology of Human Pathogens, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal

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• Joana Queiroz,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology of Human Pathogens, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal

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• Hermínia de Lencastre,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal, Laboratory of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6816-8932

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• Raquel Sá-Leão

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rsaleao@itqb.unl.pt

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology of Human Pathogens, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9804-827X

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