Should preventive antibiotics be used in patients with acute stroke? A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

• Feng Zheng ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: boris.krischek@uk-koeln.de (BK); dr.feng.zheng@gmail.com (FZ)

  Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China, Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4428-4450

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• Niklas von Spreckelsen,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Xintong Zhang,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, The Second Clinical Medical School of Inner Mongolia University for the Nationalities (Inner Mongolia Forestry General Hospital), Inner Mongolia, China

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• Pantelis Stavrinou,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Marco Timmer,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Christian Dohmen,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Roland Goldbrunner,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Fang Cao,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Software, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Cerebrovascular Disease, the first affiliated hospital of Zunyi Medical College, Zunyi, Guizhou, China

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• Qiang Zhang,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Cerebrovascular Disease, the first affiliated hospital of Zunyi Medical College, Zunyi, Guizhou, China

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• Qishan Ran,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Cerebrovascular Disease, the first affiliated hospital of Zunyi Medical College, Zunyi, Guizhou, China

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• Gang Li,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Cerebrovascular Disease, the first affiliated hospital of Zunyi Medical College, Zunyi, Guizhou, China

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• Ruiming Fan,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Software, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Cerebrovascular Disease, the first affiliated hospital of Zunyi Medical College, Zunyi, Guizhou, China

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• Shengtao Yao,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Cerebrovascular Disease, the first affiliated hospital of Zunyi Medical College, Zunyi, Guizhou, China

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• Boris Krischek

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: boris.krischek@uk-koeln.de (BK); dr.feng.zheng@gmail.com (FZ)

  Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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