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Threat of MRSA bacteremia still matters: a propensity score matching analysis

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The authors thank the staff of the participating hospitals for their assistance.

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  1. Department of General Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

    Shinnosuke Fukushima, Yoshihisa Hanayama, Shuichi Tanaka, Tomoko Miyoshi, Yuki Otsuka, Keigo Ueda & Fumio Otsuka

  2. Department of Bacteriology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

    Shinnosuke Fukushima

  3. Department of Infectious Diseases, Okayama University Hospital, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Kitaku, Okayama, 700-8558, Japan

    Shinnosuke Fukushima & Hideharu Hagiya

  4. Department of General Medicine, Kurashiki Central Hospital, Kurashiki, Japan

    Naoki Kuninaga

  5. Department of Pharmacy, Tsuyama Chuo Hospital, Okayama, Japan

    Yuto Haruki

  6. Department of General Medicine, Okayama City Hospital, Okayama, Japan

    Haruto Yamada

  7. Department of General Medicine, Okayama Medical Center, Okayama, Japan

    Yoshitaka Iwamoto

  8. Department of General Medicine, Okayama Kyoritsu Hospital, Okayama, Japan

    Masayo Yoshida

  9. Department of Neurology, Brain Attack Center Ota Memorial Hospital, Fukuyama, Japan

    Kota Sato

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Contributions

H.H. conceived the study; S.F., N.K., Y.H. (Haruki), H.Y., Y.I., M.Y., K.S., Y.H. (Hanayama), S.T., T.M., Y.O., and K.U. performed the data extraction; S.F. drafted the manuscript and performed the statistical analyses; H.H. revised the manuscript; and H.H. and F.O. supervised the study. All authors interpreted the results and approved the submission of the manuscript.

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Correspondence to Hideharu Hagiya.

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Fukushima, S., Hagiya, H., Kuninaga, N. et al. Threat of MRSA bacteremia still matters: a propensity score matching analysis. Infection (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s15010-024-02382-y

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