Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Orthopaedics, School of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan. Electronic address: swtsai.vghtpe@gmail.com.
• ² Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ.
• ³ Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON, Canada.
• ⁴ Fattouma Bourguiba University Hospital of Monastir, Department of Orthopaedics University of Monastir, Tunisia.
• ⁵ LADR Laborverbund Dr. Kramer & Kollegen, Geesthacht, Germany; Institute for hygiene and environmental medicine, Charité university medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
• ⁶ Pelvic and Arthroplasty Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Kasr Alainy Hospital, Cairo University. Egypt.
• ⁷ Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Medicabil Hospital, Bursa, Turkey.
• ⁸ Singapore General Hospital, Singapore.
• ⁹ I.R.C.C.S Ospedale Galeazzi-Sant'Ambrogio Via Cristina Belgioioso, Milano. Italy.
• ¹⁰ Hospital Angeles Centro Sur, Qro, Mexico.
• ¹¹ Department of Microbiology, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
• ¹² Department of Infectious Diseases, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, School of Medicine, University College Dublin, National OPAT Programme, Health Services Executive, Dublin, Ireland.
• ¹³ Department of Microbiology, Hospital Universitario Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid, Spain.
• ¹⁴ Mongi Slim University Hospital - Medical Faculty of Tunis - Tunis El Manar University Tunis, Tunisia.
• ¹⁵ Department of Orthopedic and Trauma, Cho Ray Hospital, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam.
• ¹⁶ Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
• ¹⁷ Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Joint Research, OLVG, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• ¹⁸ I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University AND S.P. Botkin Moscow Multidisciplinary Scientific and Clinical Centre. Moscow City Arthroplasty Centre, Moscow. Russian Federation.
• ¹⁹ Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Columbia University Irving Medical Center-New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY.
• ²⁰ Division of Infection Disease Therapeutics, Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Kobe University Hospital and Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan.
• ²¹ Department of Joint Replacement, Edgardo Rebagliati Martins Hospital, EsSalud, Lima, Perú.
• ²² Department of Clinical Microbiology, University Hospital of Navarra, Spain; Institute of Healthcare Research of Navarra (IdiSNa), Pamplona, Navarra, Spain; CIBER Epidemiologia y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain.
• ²³ Institute of Musculoskeletal Disorders and Orthopedics, Medanta Medicity, Haryana, India.
• ²⁴ University of Arizona Division of Infectious Diseases, USA.
• ²⁵ S.S. Ortoinfettivologia, S.C. Malattie Infettive, Ospedale Sant'Andrea di Vercelli, Azienda Sanitaria Locale di Vercelli, Italy.
• ²⁶ UFR Simone Veil des Sciences de la Santé, Université Paris Saclay-UVSQ, INSERM UMR U1173. Montigny le Bretonneux and Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Plateforme des Biomarqueurs Innovants, Hôpital Raymond Poincaré, GHU Paris Saclay, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Garches, France.
• ²⁷ Department of orthopedic surgery, Shiraz Medical University, Iran.
• ²⁸ Jefe del Servicio de Reemplazos Articulares, Hospital Edgardo Rebagliati Martins - EsSalud, Lima, Peru.
• ²⁹ Chiba University Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases, Japan.
• ³⁰ Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Cliniques universitaires Saint Luc, Brussels, Belgium.
• ³¹ Hospital ABC Santa Fe consultorio 501, Hospital Angeles Pedregal consultorio, Mexico City.
• ³² I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University. Moscow. Russian Federation; S. P. Botkin Moscow Multidisciplinary Scientific and Clinical Center. Moscow City Arthroplasty Center. Moscow. Russian Federation.