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1st Department of Surgery Department of Abdominal Thoracic Surgery and Traumatology General University Hospital Prague Czech Republic

2 Cátedra de Clínica Quirúrgica Hospital de Clínicas Universidad Nacional de Asunción San Lorenzo Paraguay

2nd Department of Surgery Aretaieion University Hospital National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Athens Greece

3rd Department of General Surgery Jagiellonian University Medical College Krakow Poland

6th Department of Internal Medicine Hygeia General Hospital Athens Greece

Abdominal Center University Hospital Meilahti Helsinki Finland

Academic Department of Surgery Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham UK

Anesthesia and Intensive Care Unit AORN dei Colli Vincenzo Monaldi Hospital Naples Italy

Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Unit Sant'Orsola University Hospital Bologna Italy

APHP medical and infectious diseases ICU Bichat Hospital Paris France

Australia Pharmacy Department Royal Brisbane and Womens' Hospital Burns Trauma and Critical Care Research Centre Australia School of Pharmacy The University of Queensland QLD Brisbane Australia

Biomedical Research Center Qatar University Doha Qatar

Center for Food Safety Department of Food Science and Technology University of Georgia Griffin GA USA

Center for Global Health Mito Kyodo General Hospital University of Tsukuba Mito Ibaraki Japan

Center of Anti Infective Research and Development Hartford CT USA

Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine University of Liverpool and Mercy Hospital Research Laboratory Njala University Bo Sierra Leone

Clinic for Emergency Surgery Medical Faculty University of Belgrade Belgrade Serbia

Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases School of Pathology Faculty of Health Sciences University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg South Africa

Département d'Anesthésie Réanimation CHU Amiens Picardie and INSERM U1088 Université de Picardie Jules Verne Amiens France

Département d'Anesthésie Réanimation CHU Bichat Claude Bernard HUPNVS Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris University Denis Diderot Paris France

Department for Traumatology and Orthopedic Surgery Cologne Merheim Medical Center Cologne Germany

Department General Surgery Kipshidze Central University Hospital Tbilisi Georgia

Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Hôpital Nord Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Marseille Aix Marseille Université Marseille France

Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Berlin Germany

Department of Biomedical Sciences and Public Health Unit of Hygiene Preventive Medicine and Public Health UNIVMP Ancona Italy

Department of Clinical microbiology Ampath National Laboratory Services Milpark Hospital Johannesburg South Africa

Department of Clinical Pharmacology School of Medicine University of Botswana Gaborone Botswana

Department of Critical Care Medicine Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc Université Catholique de Louvain Brussels Belgium

Department of Critical Care Medicine Ghent University Hospital Ghent Belgium

Department of Emergency Medicine and Surgery Stony Brook University School of Medicine Stony Brook NY USA

Department of Emergency Surgery and Critical Care Centro Medico Imbanaco Cali Colombia

Department of Emergency Surgery City Hospital Mozyr Belarus

Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery Stavanger University Hospital Stavanger Department of Clinical Medicine University of Bergen Bergen Norway

Department of General and Emergency Surgery Riga East University Hospital 'Gailezers' Riga Latvia

Department of General and Thoracic Surgery University Hospital Giessen Giessen Germany

Department of General Maggiore Hospital Parma Italy

Department of General Surgery Division of Surgery Rambam Health Care Campus Haifa Israel

Department of General Surgery Erzincan University Faculty of Medicine Erzincan Turkey

Department of General Surgery Hospital San Juan de Dios de La Serena La Serena Chile

Department of General Surgery Jesenice General Hospital Jesenice Slovenia

Department of General Surgery Kuala Krai Hospital Kuala Krai Kelantan Malaysia

Department of General Surgery Mansoura Faculty of Medicine Mansoura University Mansoura Egypt

Department of General Surgery Tan Tock Seng Hospital Tan Tock Seng Singapore Singapore

Department of General Visceral and Thoracic Surgery Klinikum Peine Academic Hospital of Medical University Hannover Peine Germany

Department of Global Health and Population Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health Boston MA USA

Department of Infectious Diseases Alfred Hospital Melbourne VIC Australia

Department of Intensive Care Erasme Hospital Université libre de Bruxelles Brussels Belgium

Department of Internal Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases Akron General Medical Center Northeast Ohio Medical University Akron OH USA

Department of Laboratory Medicine Division of Clinical Microbiology Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge Stockholm Sweden

Department of Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgery Colli Monaldi Hospital Naples Italy

Department of Mathematics Imperial College London London UK

Department of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases University of South Carolina School of Medicine Columbia SC USA

Department of Medicine Infectious Disease Division King Fahad Medical City Riyadh Saudi Arabia

Department of Microbiology Chitwan Medical College and Department of Environmental and Preventive Medicine Oita University Oita Japan

Department of Microbiology Gandhi Medical College Bhopal India

Department of Molecular Biology Tran Hung Dao Hospital No 1 Tran Hung Dao Street Hai Ba Trung Dist Hanoi Vietnam

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine VA Boston HealthCare System and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Boston University School of Medicine Boston MA USA

Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics College of Health Sciences Makerere University Kampala Uganda

Department of Pharmacology Pushpagiri Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre Thiruvalla Kerala India

Department of Pharmacy Lebanese International University Beirut Lebanon

Department of Primary Care and Emergency Medicine Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine Kyoto Japan

Department of Surgery Academic Medical Centre Amsterdam The Netherlands

Department of Surgery Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Jacobi Medical Center Bronx NY USA

Department of Surgery and Critical Care Universidad del Valle Fundación Valle del Lili Cali Colombia

Department of Surgery and Obstetrics Gynaecology Regional Hospital Limbe Cameroon

Department of Surgery Bizerte Hospital Bizerte Tunisia

Department of Surgery Catholic University of Sacred Heart Policlinico A Gemelli Rome Italy

Department of Surgery College of Health Sciences Obafemi Awolowo University Ile Ife Nigeria

Department of Surgery College of Medicine and Health Sciences UAE University Al Ain United Arab Emirates

Department of Surgery Division of Acute Care Surgery and Center for Sepsis and Critical Illness Research University of Florida College of Medicine Gainesville FL USA

Department of Surgery Division of Burn Critical Care and Trauma Surgery Weill Cornell Medical College New York Presbyterian Hospital New York USA

Department of Surgery Division of Trauma University of Arizona Tucson AZ USA

Department of Surgery Edendale Hospital Pietermaritzburg South Africa

Department of Surgery Emergency Hospital of Bucharest Bucharest Romania

Department of Surgery Faculté de médecine Université de Parakou BP 123 Parakou Bénin

Department of Surgery Faculty of Medicine Thammasat University Hospital Thammasat University Pathum Thani Thailand

Department of Surgery Hassan 2 University Hospital Medical School of Fez Sidi Mohamed Benabdellah University Fez Morocco

Department of Surgery Hospital Clínico Universitario Santiago de Compostela Spain

Department of Surgery Hospital Universitário Terezinha de Jesus Faculdade de Ciências Médicas e da Saúde de Juiz de Fora Juiz de Fora Brazil

Department of Surgery Infermi Hospital Rimini Italy

Department of Surgery Inling Hospital Nanjing University School of Medicine Nanjing China

Department of Surgery King Abdullah University Hospital Irbid Jordan

Department of Surgery Macerata Hospital Via Santa Lucia 2 62100 Macerata Italy

Department of Surgery Maggiore Hospital Bologna Italy

Department of Surgery Medical School University of Pécs Pécs Hungary

Department of Surgery MOSC Medical College Kolenchery Cochin India

Department of Surgery North Estonia Medical Center Tallinn Estonia

Department of Surgery Philadelphia VA Medical Center Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA USA

Department of Surgery Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University Moscow Russian Federation

Department of Surgery Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences Rohtak India

Department of Surgery Quatre Villes Hospital St Cloud France

Department of Surgery Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center Nijmegen The Netherlands

Department of Surgery Radiology University Hospital of the West Indies Kingston Jamaica

Department of Surgery School of Medicine Washington University in Saint Louis Saint Louis MO USA

Department of Surgery Sheri Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences Srinagar India

Department of Surgery St Josef Hospital Ruhr University Bochum Bochum Germany

Department of Surgery The Brunei Cancer Centre Jerudong Park Brunei

Department of Surgery Tianjin Nankai Hospital Nankai Clinical School of Medicine Tianjin Medical University Tianjin China

Department of Surgery UC San Diego Medical Center San Diego USA

Department of Surgery University Clinical Center of Tuzla Tuzla Bosnia and Herzegovina

Department of Surgery University Hospital Center Zagreb Croatia

Department of Surgery University Hospital of Trauma Tirana Albania

Department of Surgery University of Colorado Denver CO USA

Department of Surgery University of Colorado Denver Health Medical Center Denver CO USA

Department of Surgery University of Virginia Health System Charlottesville VA USA

Department of Surgery University of Washington Seattle WA USA

Department of Surgery Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond VA USA

Department of Surgery Yonsei University College of Medicine Seoul South Korea

Department of Surgical Sciences Cannizzaro Hospital University of Catania Catania Italy

Department of Trauma Surgery Royal Perth Hospital Perth Australia

Department of Traumatology John Hunter Hospital and University of Newcastle Newcastle NSW Australia

Department of Visceral Transplant and Thoracic Surgery Innsbruck Medical University Innsbruck Austria

Departments of Medicine Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Pathology and Molecular Medicine McMaster University Hamilton ON Canada

Departments of Surgery and Anesthesiology Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville TN USA

Division of Acute Care Surgery and Surgical Critical Care Department of Surgery Los Angeles County and University of Southern California Medical Center University of Southern California Los Angeles CA USA

Division of Acute Care Surgery Department of Surgery University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI USA

Division of Acute Care Surgery Program in Trauma R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center University of Maryland Baltimore MD USA

Division of Clinical and Administrative Sciences College of Pharmacy Xavier University of Louisiana New Orleans LA USA

Division of Emergency and Trauma Surgery Ribeirão Preto Medical School Ribeirão Preto Brazil

Division of Infectious Diseases Department of Clinical Pathology Faculty of Medicine University of Indonesia Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital Jakarta Indonesia

Division of Infectious Diseases Division of Emergency Medicine Washington University School of Medicine St Louis MO USA

Division of Infectious Diseases Los Angeles County University of Southern California Medical Center Keck School of Medicine at USC Los Angeles CA USA

Division of Surgery Vittorio Emanuele Hospital Catania Italy

Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care Department of Surgery Asan Medical Center University of Ulsan College of Medicine Seoul Republic of Korea

Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgry University of Miami Miami FL USA

Division of Trauma Surgery Department of Surgery School of Medical Sciences University of Campinas Campinas SP Brazil

Emergency Department University of Leipzig Leipzig Germany

General Acute Care and Trauma Surgery Foothills Medical Centre Calgary AB Canada

General and Upper GI Surgery Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham UK

General Surgery Department Centro Hospitalar de São João Porto Portugal

General Surgery Department Medical University University Hospital St George Plovdiv Bulgaria

General Surgery Department Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital Bergamo Italy

General Surgery ULSS19 del Veneto Adria Hospital Adria RO Italy

Genomic Research Laboratory Geneva University Hospitals Geneva Switzerland

Health Research Program Institute of Economic and Social Research University of Zambia Lusaka Zambia

Hospital Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases Hospital Universitario Dr Jose Eleuterio Gonzalez Monterrey Mexico

Hospital Privado Centro Médico de Caracas and Hospital Vargas de Caracas Caracas Venezuela

Ifakara Health Institute Dar es Salaam Tanzania

Infection Control Unit Angers University CHU d'Angers Angers France

Infectious Diseases Division Santa Maria Misericordia University Hospital Udine Italy

Infectious Diseases Unit Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences Sant' Orsola Hospital University of Bologna Bologna Italy

Infectious Diseases Unit University of Genoa and IRCCS San Martino IST Genoa Italy

Infectología Institucional SRL Hospital Municipal Chivilcoy Buenos Aires Argentina

Institut Pasteur Abidjan Ivory Coast

Institute of Hygiene Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin Hindenburgdamm 27 12203 Berlin Germany

Institute of Microbiology Biological and Environmental Sciences College University San Francisco de Quito Quito Ecuador

Intensive Care Department Hospital Clínico San Carlos Madrid Spain

Multidisciplinary Intensive Care Research Organization Wellcome Trust HRB Clinical Research Department of Clinical Medicine Trinity Centre for Health Sciences St James' University Hospital Dublin Ireland

National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit in Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance Imperial College London Hammersmith Campus London UK

Nottingham Oesophago Gastric Unit Nottingham University Hospitals Nottingham UK

Orgamed Consulting Bad Griesbach Germany

Pharmacy Department Alfred Health Melbourne VIC Australia

Research Unit Health Policy Consult Weija Accra Ghana

School of Life Science and The ithree Institute University of Technology Sydney NSW Australia

School of Medicine Western Sydney University Campbelltown NSW Australia

School of Pharmacy and Biomedicine Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences Ulaanbaatar Mongolia

School of Pharmacy Faculty of Medical Sciences The University of the West Indies St Augustine Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex Uriah Butler Highway Champ Fleurs Trinidad and Tobago

Section of Critical Care Medicine and Section of Infectious Diseases Department of Medicine Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology Therapeutics University of Manitoba Winnipeg MB Canada

State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases The 1st Affilliated Hospital Zhejiang University Zhejiang China

Sudan National Public Health Laboratory Federal Ministry of Health Khartoum Sudan

Surgery Health Care Group Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust Hull UK

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Pharmacy Abilene TX USA

Trauma and Acute Care Service St Michael's Hospital University of Toronto Toronto Canada

Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Unit Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center Jerusalem Israel

Trauma and Emergency Surgery Department Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Taoyuan City Taiwan

U S Naval Medical Research Unit N° 6 Callao Peru

Unit of Pharmacology Faculty of Medicine and Defense Health National Defence University of Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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