Epidemiological and clinical features of Panton-Valentine Leukocidin positive Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: A case-control study

• Ming Da Qu ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mdq1990@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4557-5583

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• Humera Kausar,

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

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States of America, Center for Microbiome Research, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States of America

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• Stephen Smith,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliations Center for Microbiome Research, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States of America, Philips Healthcare North America, Andover, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Peter G. Lazar,

  Roles Data curation, Software, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States of America

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• Aimee R. Kroll-Desrosiers,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States of America, VA Central Western Massachusetts Healthcare System, Leeds, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Carl Hollins III,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States of America

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• Bruce A. Barton,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States of America

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• Doyle V. Ward,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Microbiome Research, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Physiological Systems, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States of America

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• Richard T. Ellison III

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Physiological Systems, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States of America

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