Geographical Variability in the Likelihood of Bloodstream Infections Due to Gram-Negative Bacteria: Correlation with Proximity to the Equator and Health Care Expenditure

• David Fisman ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: David Fisman, Eleni Patrozou

  Affiliation Dalla Lana Faculty of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Eleni Patrozou ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: David Fisman, Eleni Patrozou

  Affiliation Hygeia General Hospital, Marousi, Athens, Greece

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• Yehuda Carmeli,

  Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel

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• Eli Perencevich,

  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

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• Ashleigh R. Tuite,

  Affiliation Dalla Lana Faculty of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Leonard A. Mermel ,

  * 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

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• the Geographical Variability of Bacteremia Study Group

  ¶Membership of the Geographical Variability of Bacteremia Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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