Maria Heckel:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6212-2562
Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: Project administrationRole:
VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Walter Geißdörfer: Role: Data curationRole: ResourcesRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Franziska A. Herbst: Role: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: Project administrationRole: Writing –
original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Stephanie Stiel: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole:
InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ValidationRole: Writing
– original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Christoph Ostgathe: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole:
ResourcesRole: ValidationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Christian Bogdan: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole:
ResourcesRole: ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing
– review & editing
Holger Rohde: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
11
December
2017
Publication date Collection: 2017
Volume: 12
Issue: 12
Electronic Location Identifier: e0188940
Affiliations
[1
]
Department of Palliative Medicine, Comprehensive Cancer Center CCC Erlangen-EMN, Universitätsklinikum
Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
[2
]
Mikrobiologisches Institut - Klinische Mikrobiologie, Immunologie und Hygiene, Universitätsklinikum
Erlangen and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
[3
]
Institute for General Practice, Hannover Medical School, Germany
Universitatsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, GERMANY
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
‡ MH and WG should be considered as joint first authors. CO and CB share the senior
authorship.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-17-08845
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0188940
PMC ID: 5724845
PubMed ID: 29228010
SO-VID: c5ced327-b4a3-4688-9425-7c8585e5e5bd
Copyright © © 2017 Heckel et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided
the original author and source are credited.
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002347, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung;
Award ID: 01GY1314
Award Recipient
:
Christoph Ostgathe
The presented study was part of the project “M-EndoL-MRSA in end-of-life care” which
was financed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (
https://www.bmbf.de/en/index.html) and administratively monitored by the project management agency-part of the German
Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt) (
http://www.dlr.de/dlr/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-10002/) Grant Number: 01GY1314. The funders had no role in study design, data collection
and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. We acknowledge
support by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
(FAU) within the funding programme Open Access Publishing.
Subject:
Research Article
Subject:
Biology and life sciences
Subject:
Organisms
Subject:
Bacteria
Subject:
Staphylococcus
Subject:
Staphylococcus aureus
Subject:
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Subject:
Biology and life sciences
Subject:
Microbiology
Subject:
Medical microbiology
Subject:
Microbial pathogens
Subject:
Bacterial pathogens
Subject:
Staphylococcus
Subject:
Staphylococcus aureus
Subject:
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Subject:
Medicine and health sciences
Subject:
Pathology and laboratory medicine
Subject:
Pathogens
Subject:
Microbial pathogens
Subject:
Bacterial pathogens
Subject:
Staphylococcus
Subject:
Staphylococcus aureus
Subject:
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Health Care
Subject:
Palliative Care
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Pharmacology
Subject:
Drugs
Subject:
Antimicrobials
Subject:
Antibiotics
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Microbiology
Subject:
Microbial Control
Subject:
Antimicrobials
Subject:
Antibiotics
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Health Care
Subject:
Health Care Facilities
Subject:
Hospitals
Subject:
People and places
Subject:
Geographical locations
Subject:
Europe
Subject:
European Union
Subject:
Germany
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Infectious Diseases
Subject:
Nosocomial Infections
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Organisms
Subject:
Bacteria
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Microbiology
Subject:
Bacteriology
Subject:
Gram Negative Bacteria