Re: 'Evaluating the use of 18F-FDG PET/CT in the workup of Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia: a cost-utility analysis' by Ong et al.

We were delighted to read Ong et al. in Clinical Microbiology and Infection continuing to extend information on the utility of 18F-FDG PET/CT in S. aureas bacteraemia (SAB) beyond nuclear medicine specialists into the infectious diseases community ( 1 Goodman A.L. Cook G.J. Goh V. Imaging in the investigation and management of Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia: a role for advanced imaging techniques. J Hosp Infect. 2020; 05 (Epub 2020 Jan 14. PMID: 31953235): 234-241https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2020.01.007 Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF Scopus (3) Google Scholar ). In our recent systematic review of the use of 18F-FDG PET/CT in bacteraemia we found 9 of 10 articles had a first author from an infectious diseases background whilst only 3 of 10 were published in an infectious diseases journal ( 2 Packham A. Spence N. Bawa T. Srinivasan R. Goodman A.L. The role of [18F]FDG-PET/CT in gram-positive and gram-negative bacteraemia: A systematic review. Front. Nucl. Med. 2022; 2: 1066246https://doi.org/10.3389/fnume.2022.1066246 Crossref Google Scholar ). From a similar contemporaneous analysis Buis et al. found that all the articles included in their meta-analysis on SAB specifically were written by infection specialists but 60% (3 of 5) were in nuclear medicine journals ( 3 Buis D.T.P. Sieswerda E. Kouijzer I.J.E. Huynh W.Y. Burchell G.L. Berrevoets M.A.H. Prins J.M. Sigaloff K.C.E. [18F]FDG-PET/CT in Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: a systematic review. BMC Infect Dis. 2022 Mar 24; 22 (PMID: 35331165; PMCID: PMC8943998): 282https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-022-07273-x Crossref Scopus (5) Google Scholar ). Evaluating the use of fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography in the workup of Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia: a cost-utility analysisClinical Microbiology and InfectionPreviewThe use of positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) in the evaluation of patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia can improve the diagnosis of infectious foci and guide clinical management. We aimed to evaluate the cost-utility of PET/CT among adults hospitalized with Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia. Full-Text PDF