About the Authors

Concepción Casado

Contributed equally to this work with: Concepción Casado, Sara Colombo

Affiliation Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Sara Colombo

Contributed equally to this work with: Concepción Casado, Sara Colombo

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, University Hospital Center, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Andri Rauch

Affiliation University Clinic of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Bern and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Raquel Martínez

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, University Hospital Center, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Huldrych F. Günthard

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Soledad Garcia

Affiliation Centro Sanitario Sandoval, IMSALUD Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Carmen Rodríguez

Affiliation Centro Sanitario Sandoval, IMSALUD Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Jorge del Romero

Affiliation Centro Sanitario Sandoval, IMSALUD Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Amalio Telenti

amalio.telenti@chuv.ch (AT); clopez@isciii.es (CLG)

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, University Hospital Center, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Cecilio López-Galíndez

amalio.telenti@chuv.ch (AT); clopez@isciii.es (CLG)

Affiliation Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AT CLG. Performed the experiments: CC SC RM. Analyzed the data: CC SC AR RM HFG SG CR JDR AT CLG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AR HFG SG CR JDR. Wrote the paper: AT CLG.