1Infectious Diseases Division, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Correspondence: Eleftherios Mylonakis, MD, PhD, FIDSA, Infectious Diseases Division, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital, 593 Eddy Street, POB, 3rd Floor, Suite 328/330, Providence, Rhode Island 02903, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL accompanies this paper at https://links.lww.com/AJG/B60
Received 04 November 2014; accepted 07 January 2015
Guarantor of the article: Ioannis M. Zacharioudakis, MD, and Eleftherios Mylonakis, MD, PhD, FIDSA.
Specific author contributions: Ioannis M. Zacharioudakis: conceptualized and designed the study, performed the literature search, participated in data collection, extraction, and interpretation, prepared tables and figures, wrote and drafted the initial manuscript, and approved the final manuscript as submitted. Dr Zacharioudakis had full access to all of the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. Fainareti N. Zervou: designed the study, performed the literature search, participated in data collection extraction and interpretation, prepared tables and figures, performed the statistical analysis, wrote and drafted the manuscript, and approved the final manuscript as submitted. Elina Eleftheria Pliakos: designed the study, performed the literature search, participated in data collection extraction and interpretation, drafted the manuscript, and approved the final manuscript as submitted. Panayiotis D. Ziakas: designed the study, performed the statistical analysis and data interpretation, reviewed and revised the manuscript, and approved the final manuscript as submitted. Eleftherios Mylonakis: conceptualized and designed the study, interpreted the data, reviewed and revised the manuscript, and approved the final manuscript as submitted.
Financial support: No funding was received regarding this manuscript.
Potential competing interests: None.
