Comparison of sonication with chemical biofilm dislodgement methods using chelating and reducing agents: Implications for the microbiological diagnosis of implant associated infection

• Svetlana Karbysheva,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery, Charité –Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany, Berlin-Brandenburg Centre for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Berlin, Germany

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• Mariagrazia Di Luca,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery, Charité –Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany, Berlin-Brandenburg Centre for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Berlin, Germany

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• Maria Eugenia Butini,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery, Charité –Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany, Berlin-Brandenburg Centre for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Berlin, Germany

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• Tobias Winkler,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery, Charité –Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany, Berlin-Brandenburg Centre for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Berlin, Germany

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• Michael Schütz,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma, Jamieson Trauma Institute, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

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• Andrej Trampuz

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: andrej.trampuz@charite.de

  Affiliations Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery, Charité –Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany, Berlin-Brandenburg Centre for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Berlin, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5219-2521

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