Obese patients have higher rates of polymicrobial and Gram-negative early periprosthetic joint infections of the hip than non-obese patients

• Claudia A. M. Löwik ,

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

  * E-mail: c.a.m.lowik@umcg.nl

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

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3532-537X

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• Wierd P. Zijlstra,

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

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

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• Bas A. S. Knobben,

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

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

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• 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

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• Baukje Dijkstra,

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

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

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• Astrid J. de Vries,

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

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

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• 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

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• Glen Mithoe,

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

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

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• Aziz Al Moujahid,

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

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

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• 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

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• 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

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• for the Northern Infection Network Joint Arthroplasty (NINJA)

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

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