Urinary tract infections in kidney transplant patients admitted to hospital: A real-life experience
Biagio Pinchera, Rosa Carrano, Elisa Schettino, Alessia D'Agostino, Emilia Trucillo, Federica Cuccurullo, Fabrizio Salemi, Amerigo Piccione, Ivan Gentile
Biagio Pinchera, Alessia D'Agostino, Emilia Trucillo, Federica Cuccurullo, Ivan Gentile, Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples 80131, Italy
Rosa Carrano, Elisa Schettino, Fabrizio Salemi, Amerigo Piccione, Section of Nephrology, Department of Public Health, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples 80131, Italy
Co-first authors: Biagio Pinchera and Rosa Carrano.
Author contributions: Pinchera B conceptualized the study; Schettino E, Salemi F, and Piccione A designed the methodology; Schettino E, D’Agostino A, Trucillo E, and Cuccurullo F provided critical software; Carrano R and Gentile I performed the validation of the data; Pinchera B performed the formal data analyses; Pinchera B, Schettino E, D’Agostino A, and Trucillo E performed the investigations; Carrano R, Schettino E, Salemi F, and Piccione A provided critical resources; Schettino E performed the data curation; Pinchera B and Gentile I performed the drafting, writing, review and editing of the manuscript; Pinchera B, Carrano R, and Gentile I provided the data visualization; Carrano R and Gentile I supervised the study; Pinchera B provided project administration; All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript. The designation of co-first authorship is merited by Pinchera B and Carrano R for their collaborative activities in design of the study and acquisition and analysis of the data.
Institutional review board statement: Ethical approval was obtained from the Ethics Committee of the Federico II University Hospital of Naples, on November 20, 2022 with the number 104/22.
Informed consent statement: The patients provided their written informed consent to participate in this study.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
Data sharing statement: Data requests may be made directly to the corresponding author via email.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See:
https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Biagio Pinchera, MD, Doctor, Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, University of Naples “Federico II”, Via Sergio Pansini, n.5, Naples 80131, Italy.
biapin89@virgilio.it
Received: July 24, 2024
Revised: November 7, 2024
Accepted: November 28, 2024
Published online: June 18, 2025
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