About the Authors

Marjolein van Gent

Contributed equally to this work with: Marjolein van Gent, Inge H. M. van Loo

Affiliation Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Screening, Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Inge H. M. van Loo

Contributed equally to this work with: Marjolein van Gent, Inge H. M. van Loo

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Kees J. Heuvelman

Affiliation Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Screening, Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Albert J. de Neeling

Affiliation Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Screening, Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Peter Teunis

Affiliation Expertise Centre for Methodology and Information Services, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Frits R. Mooi

frits.mooi@rivm.nl

Affiliation Laboratory for Infectious Diseases and Screening, Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FRM MvG IHMvL KJH. Performed the experiments: MvG IHMvL KJH. Analyzed the data: FRM MvG IHMvL AJdN PT. Wrote the paper: FRM MvG IHMvL.