Livestock-Associated Methicillin and Multidrug Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Is Present among Industrial, Not Antibiotic-Free Livestock Operation Workers in North Carolina

• Jessica L. Rinsky ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jessica L. Rinsky, Maya Nadimpalli

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Maya Nadimpalli ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jessica L. Rinsky, Maya Nadimpalli

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Steve Wing,

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Devon Hall,

  Affiliation Rural Empowerment Association for Community Help (REACH), Warsaw, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Dothula Baron,

  Affiliation Rural Empowerment Association for Community Help (REACH), Warsaw, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Lance B. Price,

  Affiliation Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

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• Jesper Larsen,

  Affiliation Microbiology and Infection Control, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Marc Stegger,

  Affiliation Microbiology and Infection Control, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Jill Stewart,

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Christopher D. Heaney

  * E-mail: cheaney@jhsph.edu

  Affiliations Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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