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. 2015 Apr 13;10(4):e0122824. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122824

Fig 1. Study profile. Originally 617 patients with methicillin-sensitive S. aureus bacteraemia were identified.

Fig 1

Patients with methicillin-resistant S. aureus bacteraemia were not included in the study (n = 6). The exclusion criteria were: patients with fatal outcome within 3 days of positive blood cultures, patients with alcoholism, acute or chronic liver diseases and patients without a deep infection foci. In total, 260 patients were excluded and altogether 357 patients were left for the analyses. Early initiation of rifampicin therapy was defined as an initiation within 7 days of positive blood cultures whereas late initiation of rifampicin therapy was defined as an initiation 7 days past positive blood cultures.