Ward-specific clustering of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus spa-type t037 and t045 in two hospitals in South Africa: 2013 to 2017

• Wilhelmina Strasheim,

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

  Affiliation Centre for Healthcare-Associated Infections, Antimicrobial Resistance and Mycoses, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Olga Perovic,

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

  Affiliations Centre for Healthcare-Associated Infections, Antimicrobial Resistance and Mycoses, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, School of Pathology, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Ashika Singh-Moodley,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Healthcare-Associated Infections, Antimicrobial Resistance and Mycoses, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, School of Pathology, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Stanford Kwanda,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Sequencing Core Facility, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9008-4898

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• Arshad Ismail,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Sequencing Core Facility, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4672-5915

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• Michelle Lowe

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: michellel@nicd.ac.za

  Affiliation Centre for Healthcare-Associated Infections, Antimicrobial Resistance and Mycoses, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6399-6229

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