Chronic osteomyelitis risk is associated with NLRP3 gene rs10754558 polymorphism in a Chinese Han Population.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThe study was conducted according to the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by the Institutional Review Board of Southern Medical University (Approval letter No. NFEC-2019-087). Informed consent was obtained from all participants involved in the study. Consent for publicationNA. Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant numbers: 81972083, 82172197), Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Project (grant number: 2020A0505100039), Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (grant number: 2022A1515012385), the Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangzhou (grant numbers 202201020303, 202102080052, 202102010057, 201804010226); and the Science Foundation of Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital (grant numbers 3D-A2020004, 3D-A2020002, YQ2019-009, C2020019)."