About the Authors

Stefan Kulick

Contributed equally to this work with: Stefan Kulick, Claudia Moccia

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Claudia Moccia

Contributed equally to this work with: Stefan Kulick, Claudia Moccia

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Xavier Didelot

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Daniel Falush

Affiliation Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Christian Kraft

Current address: Department of Pathology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Sebastian Suerbaum

suerbaum.sebastian@mh-hannover.de

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SK CM CK SS. Performed the experiments: SK CM CK. Analyzed the data: SK CM XD DF CK SS. Wrote the paper: SK CM XD SS.