Association between the proportion of laparoscopic approaches for digestive surgeries and the incidence of consequent surgical site infections, 2009–2019: A retrospective observational study based on national surveillance data in Japan

• Toshiki Kajihara ,

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

  * E-mail: kajihara@niid.go.jp

  Affiliation Antimicrobial Resistance Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7576-2654

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• Koji Yahara,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Antimicrobial Resistance Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

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• Aki Hirabayashi,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Antimicrobial Resistance Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

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• Yumiko Hosaka,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Antimicrobial Resistance Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

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• Norikazu Kitamura,

  Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Antimicrobial Resistance Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

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• Motoyuki Sugai,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Antimicrobial Resistance Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

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• Keigo Shibayama

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology/Drug Resistance and Pathogenesis, Nagoya University, Graduate School of Medicine, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Japan

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