Rapid direct detection of pathogens for diagnosis of joint infections by MALDI-TOF MS after liquid enrichment in the BacT/Alert blood culture system

• Christine Noll ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christine Noll, Azadda Nasruddin-Yekta, Frank Timo Beil, Oliver Bader

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: Christine.Noll@med.uni-goettingen.de

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8567-1254

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• Azadda Nasruddin-Yekta ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christine Noll, Azadda Nasruddin-Yekta, Frank Timo Beil, Oliver Bader

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

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• Pia Sternisek,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

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• Michael Weig,

  Roles Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

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• Uwe Groß,

  Roles Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

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• Arndt F. Schilling,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision

  Affiliation Department for Trauma Surgery, Orthopedics and Plastic Surgery, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

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• Frank Timo Beil ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christine Noll, Azadda Nasruddin-Yekta, Frank Timo Beil, Oliver Bader

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Department for Orthopedics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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• Oliver Bader

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christine Noll, Azadda Nasruddin-Yekta, Frank Timo Beil, Oliver Bader

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

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1534-440X

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