Affiliations

• ¹ Kasr Alain Hospital, Cairo University. Egypt. Electronic address: fouadsadek@hotmail.com.
• ² Department of Infectious Diseases, Karlstad Hospital, Karlstad, Sweden; School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden; Centre for Clinical Research and Education, Region Värmland, Karlstad, Sweden.
• ³ Department of Internal Medicine. Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre. Instituto de Investigacion Biomédic Madrid, Spain; CIBER de Enfermedades Infecciosas (CIBERINFEC). Instituto de Salud Carlos III. Madrid, Spain.
• ⁴ Vreden National Medical Research Center of Traumatology and Orthopedics, Ministry of Health of Russian Federation, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation.
• ⁵ Department of Infectious Diseases, Northern Health, Melbourne, Australia; Department of Medicine, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
• ⁶ Division of Infectious Diseases, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
• ⁷ Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
• ⁸ Department of Infectious Diseases, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Murdoch, Western Australia.
• ⁹ University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
• ¹⁰ Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
• ¹¹ Department of Infectious Diseases. Hospital del Mar. Hospital del Mar Research Institute. Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). Barcelona, Spain.
• ¹² Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Nebraska Medical Center. Omaha, NE, USA.
• ¹³ Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Ankara, Turkey.
• ¹⁴ LADR Central Laboratory Dr. Kramer & Colleagues, Geesthacht, Germany. Institute of hygiene and environmental medicine, Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany.
• ¹⁵ University Hospital Basel, Switzerland; Centre for Musculoskeletal Infections, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland.
• ¹⁶ Hospital Dr Salvador B. Gautier, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
• ¹⁷ Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain; Institut d'investigació Biomèdica August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS). University of Barcelona.
• ¹⁸ Infectious Diseases Department, Vall d'Hebron, Hospital Universitari, Barcelona, Spain; CIBERINFEC, ISCIII-CIBER of Infectious Diseases, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
• ¹⁹ Medical City Complex, Baghdad, Iraq.
• ²⁰ University of Rochester Rochester, NY, USA.
• ²¹ Department of Infection: University Hospitals of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
• ²² University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
• ²³ Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom; Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.