About the Authors

Dominik Mertz

Affiliations Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Diseases Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Tae Hyong Kim

Affiliations Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Division of Infectious Diseases, Departments of Internal Medicine, Soon Chun Hyang University Seoul Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Jennie Johnstone

Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Po-Po Lam

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Michelle Science

Affiliations Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Stefan P. Kuster

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Shaza A. Fadel

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Dat Tran

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Eduardo Fernandez

Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Neera Bhatnagar

Affiliation Health Sciences Library, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Mark Loeb

loebm@mcmaster.ca

Affiliations Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Diseases Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

Mark Loeb has been a paid consultant for GSK, Novartis, and Sanofi Pasteur (vaccine manufacturers). There are no other competing interests to be declared. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DM THK JJ NB ML. Performed the experiments: DM THK JJ PL MS SPK SAF DT EF. Analyzed the data: DM THK JJ PL MS SPK SAF DT EF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NB. Wrote the paper: DM THK JJ ML.