Comparison of approaches for source attribution of ESBL-producing Escherichia coli in Germany

• Sara Perestrelo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sara Perestrelo, Guido Correia Carreira

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: sara.perestrelo@bfr.bund.de

  Affiliation Biological Safety, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8370-7911

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• Guido Correia Carreira ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sara Perestrelo, Guido Correia Carreira

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Biological Safety, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany

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• Lars Valentin ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ LV, JF, YP, GW, JS, LF, CI, TC and AK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Biological Safety, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany

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• Jennie Fischer ,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ LV, JF, YP, GW, JS, LF, CI, TC and AK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Biological Safety, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany

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• Yvonne Pfeifer ,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ LV, JF, YP, GW, JS, LF, CI, TC and AK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Nosocomial Pathogens and Antibiotic Resistance, Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode, Germany

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• Guido Werner ,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ LV, JF, YP, GW, JS, LF, CI, TC and AK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Nosocomial Pathogens and Antibiotic Resistance, Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode, Germany

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• Judith Schmiedel ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ LV, JF, YP, GW, JS, LF, CI, TC and AK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

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• Linda Falgenhauer ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ LV, JF, YP, GW, JS, LF, CI, TC and AK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Giessen-Marburg-Langen, Campus Giessen, Giessen, Germany, Hessisches universitäres Kompetenzzentrum Krankenhaushygiene (HuKKH), Giessen, Germany

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• Can Imirzalioglu ,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ LV, JF, YP, GW, JS, LF, CI, TC and AK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Institute of Medical Microbiology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Giessen-Marburg-Langen, Campus Giessen, Giessen, Germany

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• Trinad Chakraborty ,

  Roles Data curation, Supervision

  ¶‡ LV, JF, YP, GW, JS, LF, CI, TC and AK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Institute of Medical Microbiology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Giessen-Marburg-Langen, Campus Giessen, Giessen, Germany

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• Annemarie Käsbohrer

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

  ¶‡ LV, JF, YP, GW, JS, LF, CI, TC and AK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Biological Safety, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany, Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

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