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Findings were synthesised descriptively according to pathogen, study design, methods used to identify myocardial injury and reported cardiac findings.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>17 studies met the inclusion criteria, comprising 173 clinical patients from three observational cohort studies and 13 case reports, together with one experimental in vitro study of 23 ex vivo human myocardial tissue samples. A diverse range of Gram-negative and Gram-positive pathogens was reported. Myocardial injury was identified predominantly by circulating biomarkers, with limited postmortem histopathological confirmation. No study was designed to evaluate causal or comparative pathogen-specific mechanisms. 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