Affiliations

• ¹ Joint Reconstruction Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Electronic address: smjmort@yahoo.com.
• ² Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Medical Academy, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Kaunas, Lithuania; Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas Clinics, Kaunas, Lithuania.
• ³ Orthopaedic Department, Gruca Orthopaedic and Trauma Teaching Hospital, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Otwock, Poland.
• ⁴ Joint Solutions, Mumbai, India & Jaslok Hospital & Research Center, Mumbai, India.
• ⁵ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA.
• ⁶ Faculty of Medical Sciences, Sana'a University, Sana'a, Yemen.
• ⁷ Cleveland Clinic South Pointe Hospital, Cleveland, OH, USA.
• ⁸ Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Assiut University Hospitals, Assiut, Egypt.
• ⁹ Orthopaedics department, Instituto Fiorentino di Clinica et Analisi. Firenze, Italy.
• ¹⁰ Bone and Joint Infection Unit. Department of Traumatology and Orthopedics, Hospital Universitari MútuaTerrassa, Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain.
• ¹¹ Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, N.Y., United States.
• ¹² Senior Consultant, Apollo Hospitals, Bhubaneswar, India.
• ¹³ Joint Pathology Department. Sytenko Institute of Spine and Joint Pathology National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
• ¹⁴ National Rehabilitation Institute of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.
• ¹⁵ Exeter Hip Unit, South West Ambulatory Orthopaedic Centre, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom.
• ¹⁶ Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatology, Istinye University Faculty of Medicine, Türkiye.
• ¹⁷ Hip and Knee Reconstruction Group, Imbanaco Medical Center, Cali, Colombia.
• ¹⁸ Department of Orthopedics, University of the Philippines Manila - Philippine General Hospital, Manila, Philippines.
• ¹⁹ Joint Reconstruction Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
• ²⁰ Thomas Jefferson University, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
• ²¹ Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Bone Infection Unit, Plastics and Reconstructive Surgery, Oxford, United Kingdom.
• ²² Division of Infectious Diseases, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.
• ²³ Department of Orthopedic Surgery, McGovern Medical School, UTHealth-Houston, Houston, TX 77401, USA.
• ²⁴ Joint Reconstruction Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Students' Scientific Research Center (SSRC), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
• ²⁵ Nova Clinica Santa Cecilia, Quito, Equador.
• ²⁶ Division of Adult Hip and Knee Replacement, National institute of Rehabilitation, Mexico City, Mexico.
• ²⁷ Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan.
• ²⁸ Department of Orthopedic Surgery. Health Sciences San Francisco de Quito University. Hospital Metropolitano. Quito, Ecuador; Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Hospital de los Valles, Quito, Ecuador.
• ²⁹ Department of Surgery, Uniosun Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, Nigeria.
• ³⁰ Istanbul Medipol University, Istanbul, Türkiye.
• ³¹ Referral Center for Complex Bone and Joint Infection, Hospital Group Diaconesses Croix Saint-Simon, Paris, France.
• ³² Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.