About the Authors

Marc Tebruegge

marc.tebruegge@rch.org.au

Affiliations Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of General Medicine, Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Anastasia Pantazidou

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of General Medicine, Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Vanessa Clifford

Affiliations Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Department of Microbiology, Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Gena Gonis

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Nicole Ritz

Affiliations Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of General Medicine, Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Tom Connell

Affiliations Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of General Medicine, Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Nigel Curtis

Affiliations Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of General Medicine, Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MT NC. Analyzed the data: MT AP VC GG NR TC NC. Wrote the paper: MT AP VC GG NR TC NC. Data collection: MT AP VC GG.