A retrospective observational study of the impact of 16s and 18s ribosomal RNA PCR on antimicrobial treatment over seven years: A tertiary hospital experience

• TeeKeat Teoh,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Microbiology, University Limerick Hospital Group, Limerick, Ireland, Centre for Interventions in Infection, Inflammation & Immunity (4i) and School of Medicine, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

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• Rachel McNamara,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

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• James Powell,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, University Limerick Hospital Group, Limerick, Ireland

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• Nuala H. O’Connell,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Microbiology, University Limerick Hospital Group, Limerick, Ireland, Centre for Interventions in Infection, Inflammation & Immunity (4i) and School of Medicine, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

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• Colum P. Dunne

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

  * E-mail: colum.dunne@ul.ie

  Affiliation Centre for Interventions in Infection, Inflammation & Immunity (4i) and School of Medicine, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5010-3185

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