The Model for End-stage Liver Disease (MELD) as a predictor of short-term mortality in Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection: A single-centre observational study

• Jan A. Roth,

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Andreas F. Widmer,

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Sarah Tschudin-Sutter,

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Marc Dangel,

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Reno Frei,

  Affiliations University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Division of Clinical Microbiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Manuel Battegay,

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Balthasar L. Hug

  * E-mail: b.hug@unibas.ch.

  Affiliations University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Department of Internal Medicine, Kantonsspital Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4235-1995

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