1. Unit of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Instituto de Investigación Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain;
2. Red Española de Investigación en Patología Infecciosa (REIPI);
3. Department of Infectious Diseases, Gustave Dron Hospital of Tourcoing, France;
4. Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge, IDIBELL, Barcelona, Spain;
5. Bone Infection Unit, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford, United Kingdom;
6. Department of Infectious Diseases, Hôpital Universitaire Bretonneau, Tours, France;
7. Centre de Référence pour les Infections Ostéo-Articulaires Complexes du Grand Ouest (CRIOGO);
8. Centre correspondant de prise en charge des Infections Ostéo-articulaires Complexes du Grand Sud-Ouest, CHU Bordeaux,
9. Centre de Référence des Infections Ostéo-Articulaires Complexes, Groupe Hospitalier Diaconesses Croix Saint Simon, Paris, and
10. Department of Infectious Diseases, Rennes University Hospital, Rennes, France;
11. Interdisciplinary Septic Surgical Unit, Kantonsspital Baselland, Liestal,
12. Department of Infectious Diseases, Hôpitaux Universitaires Genève, Switzerland;
13. Hospital of Traumatology and Orthopedics, Riga, Latvia;
14. Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Hôpital de la Croix-Rousse, Hospices Civils de Lyon, France;
15. Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Universitario Donostia, San Sebastián, Spain;
16. Department of Infectious Diseases, Saint Vincent’s Public Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia;
17. Department of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland;
18. Infectious Diseases Department, University Clinical Center, Maribor, Slovenia;
19. Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,
20. Clinical Unit of Infectious Diseases, Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (Ibis), University of Seville, University Hospitals Virgen Macarena y Virgen del Rocío, and
21. Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain;
22. Center for Orthopedics, Trauma Surgery and Spinal Cord Injury, Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany;
23. Helsinki University Hospital, Finland;
24. Department of Infectious Diseases, John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia;
25. Departments of Orthopedic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands;
26. Department of Infectious Diseases, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Western Australia,
27. Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Concord Hospital, New South Wales, Australia;
28. Service for Bone Infections, Valdoltra Orthopaedic Hospital, Ankaran, Slovenia;
29. Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain;
30. ESCMID Study Group for Implant-Associated Infections (ESGIAI);
31. Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital de El Bierzo, Ponferrada,
32. Unit of Infectious Diseases, Hospital de Cruces, Barakaldo, and
33. Unit of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain;
34. Unit of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Santa Casa de Misericórdia de São Paulo, Brazil;
35. Unit of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitario Lucus Augusti, Lugo, Spain;
36. Unit of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Universitari de la Santa Creu I Sant Pau, Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica Sant Pau, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,
37. Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Son Espases, Palma de Mallorca, and
38. Unit of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Universitari Mútua de Terrassa, Spain;
39. Department of Infectious Diseases, Northern Health, Victoria and University of Melbourne, Northern Clinical School, Australia;
40. Department of Clinical Microbiology, IIS-Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid,
41. Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain;
42. Department of Clinical Microbiology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland;
43. Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, Humanitas Research Hospital, Milano, Italy;
44. Department of Orthopedics, OrhopediClinic, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary;
45. Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, IRYCIS,
46. Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, and
47. Unit of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro, Madrid, Spain;
48. Department of Infectious Diseases, 4th Department of Internal Medicine, NKUA, ATTIKON University General Hospital, Athens, Greece;
49. Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Universitari Arnau de Vilanova, Lleida,
50. Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital de Basurto, Bilbao, and
51. Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitario Príncipe de Asturias, Alcalá de Henares, Spain;
52. University of Melbourne, Departments of Surgery and Orthopaedic, St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia;
53. Department of Infectious Diseases, Hôpital Universitaire Hôtel Dieu, Nantes,
54. Department of Infectious Diseases, Hôpital Universitaire La Cavale Blanche, Brest, and
55. Department of Infectious Diseases, Hôpital Universitaire La Miletrie, Poitiers, France.