About the Authors

Samuel Rhedin

Contributed equally to this work with: Samuel Rhedin, Johan Hamrin, Anna Färnert, Margareta Eriksson

samuel.rhedin@ki.se (SR); johan.hamrin@karolinska.se (JH)

Affiliation Department of Medicine Solna - Infectious Diseases Unit, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Johan Hamrin

Contributed equally to this work with: Samuel Rhedin, Johan Hamrin, Anna Färnert, Margareta Eriksson

samuel.rhedin@ki.se (SR); johan.hamrin@karolinska.se (JH)

Affiliations Department for Women and Child Health, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, Astrid Lindgren Children’s Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Pontus Naucler

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Rutger Bennet

Affiliations Department for Women and Child Health, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, Astrid Lindgren Children’s Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Maria Rotzén-Östlund

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Anna Färnert

Contributed equally to this work with: Samuel Rhedin, Johan Hamrin, Anna Färnert, Margareta Eriksson

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Medicine Solna - Infectious Diseases Unit, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Margareta Eriksson

Contributed equally to this work with: Samuel Rhedin, Johan Hamrin, Anna Färnert, Margareta Eriksson

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department for Women and Child Health, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, Astrid Lindgren Children’s Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SR JH RB MRÖ AF ME. Analyzed the data: SR JH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SR PN RB MRÖ ME AF. Wrote the paper: SR JH PN AF.