About the Authors
- Ulrich Nübel
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ulrich Nübel, Matthias Nachtnebel
* E-mail: nuebelu@rki.de
Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Unit of Nosocomial Infections, Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode, Germany
- Matthias Nachtnebel
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ulrich Nübel, Matthias Nachtnebel
Affiliations Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany, Post Graduate Training in Applied Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany, European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden
- Gerhard Falkenhorst
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Affiliation Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany
- Justus Benzler
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Affiliation Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany
- Jochen Hecht
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Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany, Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charité University Medical Center, Berlin, Germany
- Michael Kube
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Current address: Division Phytomedicine, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
- Felix Bröcker
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Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
- Karin Moelling
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Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany, Institute of Medical Virology, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Christoph Bührer
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Affiliation Department of Neonatology, Charité University Medical Center, Berlin, Germany
- Petra Gastmeier
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Affiliation Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, Charité University Medical Center, Berlin, Germany
- Brar Piening
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Affiliation Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, Charité University Medical Center, Berlin, Germany
- Michael Behnke
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Affiliation Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, Charité University Medical Center, Berlin, Germany
- Manuel Dehnert
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Affiliation Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany
- Franziska Layer
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Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Unit of Nosocomial Infections, Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode, Germany
- Wolfgang Witte
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Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Unit of Nosocomial Infections, Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode, Germany
- Tim Eckmanns
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Affiliation Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Collected epidemiological data: MN GF CB PG BP. Helped with data management: MB. Conceived and designed the experiments: UN MN GF JB KM CB PG BP WW TE. Performed the experiments: JH MK FB KM FL. Analyzed the data: UN MN KM MD BP CB PG FL WW GF JB TE. Wrote the paper: UN MN FL WW CB PG GF TE.