About the Authors

Claudia A. M. Löwik

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

c.a.m.lowik@umcg.nl

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Wierd P. Zijlstra

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Medical Center Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

Bas A. S. Knobben

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Martini Hospital, Groningen, The Netherlands

Joris J. W. Ploegmakers

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Baukje Dijkstra

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Medical Center Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

Astrid J. de Vries

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Martini Hospital, Groningen, The Netherlands

Greetje A. Kampinga

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Infection Prevention, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Glen Mithoe

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Certe Medical Diagnostics and Advice, Groningen, the Netherlands

Aziz Al Moujahid

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases Friesland, Izore, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands

Paul C. Jutte

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Marjan Wouthuyzen-Bakker

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Infection Prevention, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

for the Northern Infection Network Joint Arthroplasty (NINJA)

Membership of the Northern Infection Network Joint Arthroplasty (NINJA) is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.