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Article History

Received: 15 September 2019

Accepted: 21 November 2019

First Online: 2 December 2019

Compliance with ethical standards

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: All authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

: The study protocol was carried out in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. This was a non-interventional study with no additional investigation to routine procedures. Biological material was only used for standard infection diagnostics following physicians’ prescriptions. No additional sampling or modification of the routine sampling protocol was performed. Data analyses were carried out using an anonymous database. For these reasons, ethics committee approval was considered unnecessary according to national guidelines. The Clinical Microbiology Clinical Management Unit of the University Hospital Virgen de las Nieves of Granada (Spain) granted permission to access and use the data.

: The study protocol was carried out in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration. Data analyses were performed using an anonymous database. Therefore, approval was considered unnecessary according to the guidelines of our country (Law on Data Protection -Organic Law 15/1999 of 13 December on the protection of data of a personal nature, ).