Eryılmaz Eren, Esma https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2712-9694
Iosifidis, Elias https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9881-451X
Sav, Hafize https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8435-396X
Celik, Ilhami https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2604-3776
Mouloudi, Eleni https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0079-2012
Pyrpasopoulou, Athina https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6906-2504
Zarras, Charalampos https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8815-2495
Roilides, Emmanuel https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0202-364X
Funding for this research was provided by:
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
University of Health Sciences
Article History
Received: 23 October 2025
Accepted: 8 June 2026
First Online: 16 June 2026
Declarations
Competing interest: The authors declare no competing interests.
Ethical Approval: The study protocol and pseudonymized retrospective data collection were approved by the Ethics Committees of both participating institutions (Hippokration Hospital, approval number 51442/13–11-2023; Kayseri City Hospital Non-Interventional Clinical Research Ethics Committee, approval number 270, dated 10.12.2024). Due to the retrospective nature of the study, informed consent was waived.
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