About the Authors
- David Fisman
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Contributed equally to this work with: David Fisman, Eleni Patrozou
Affiliation Dalla Lana Faculty of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Eleni Patrozou
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Contributed equally to this work with: David Fisman, Eleni Patrozou
Affiliation Hygeia General Hospital, Marousi, Athens, Greece
- Yehuda Carmeli
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Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Eli Perencevich
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and Iowa City Veterans Health Care System, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
- Ashleigh R. Tuite
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Affiliation Dalla Lana Faculty of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Leonard A. Mermel
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* E-mail: lmermel@lifespan.org
Affiliation Department of Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Division of Infectious Diseases, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
- the Geographical Variability of Bacteremia Study Group
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¶Membership of the Geographical Variability of Bacteremia Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
Dr. Mermel has received research funding from Astrellas and Theravance. Dr. Carmelli has served as a consultant for Merck, Sharp and Dohme, Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca, Rempex, Durata, Achaogen, and Basilia. His institution has received research funding from Basilia, and he has received payment for lectures from Merck, Sharp and Dohme, and AstraZeneca. Drs. Perencevich, Fisman, Tuite, and Patrozou have no conflicts of interest. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: DF E. Patrozou YC E. Perencevich ART LAM. Performed the experiments: DF E. Patrozou YC E. Perencevich ART LAM REQ VV TMK SM CSB ABR ACG LS RA AMO ARM LFAC MBE LC TCTS PRPB EG CG CB MAS AJM SS AAE GP ET HH JK AA MGF JM AJR. Analyzed the data: DF ART. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DF ART. Wrote the paper: DF E. Patrozou LAM. Reviewed the draft manuscript and made substantive changes: DF E. Patrozou YC E. Perencevich ART LAM.