The effect of empiric antimicrobial treatment duration on detection of bacterial DNA in sterile surgical specimens

• John Joseph Farrell ,

  * E-mail: jjf@uic.edu

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Microbiology & Serology, OSF System Lab, Peoria, Illinois, United States of America

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• Huaping Wang,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria, Illinois, United States of America

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• Rangarajan Sampath,

  Affiliation Ibis Biosciences, an Abbott Company, Carlsbad, California, United States of America

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• Kristin S. Lowery,

  Affiliation Ibis Biosciences, an Abbott Company, Carlsbad, California, United States of America

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• Robert A. Bonomo

  Affiliations Research Service, Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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