The efficacy of inflammatory markers in diagnosing infected diabetic foot ulcers and diabetic foot osteomyelitis: Systematic review and meta-analysis

• Harman Sharma ,

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

  * E-mail: harman.sharma@my.jcu.edu.au

  Affiliation College of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Douglas, Queensland, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9274-4669

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• Sandhli Sharma,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

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• Anirudh Krishnan ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ AK and DY also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation College of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Douglas, Queensland, Australia

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• Daniel Yuan ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ AK and DY also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation College of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Douglas, Queensland, Australia

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• Venkat N. Vangaveti,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations College of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Douglas, Queensland, Australia, Translational Research in Endocrinology and Diabetes, College of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Douglas, Queensland, Australia

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• Usman H. Malabu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Usman H. Malabu, Nagaraja Haleagrahara

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations College of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Douglas, Queensland, Australia, Translational Research in Endocrinology and Diabetes, College of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Douglas, Queensland, Australia

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• Nagaraja Haleagrahara

  Contributed equally to this work with: Usman H. Malabu, Nagaraja Haleagrahara

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Douglas, Queensland, Australia

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