About the Authors

Alessandro Cassini

Contributed equally to this work with: Alessandro Cassini, Diamantis Plachouras

alessandro.cassini@ecdc.europa.eu (AC); diamantis.plachouras@ecdc.europa.eu (DP)

Affiliations European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Diamantis Plachouras

Contributed equally to this work with: Alessandro Cassini, Diamantis Plachouras

alessandro.cassini@ecdc.europa.eu (AC); diamantis.plachouras@ecdc.europa.eu (DP)

Affiliation European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden

Tim Eckmanns

Affiliation Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Muna Abu Sin

Affiliation Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Hans-Peter Blank

Affiliation Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Tanja Ducomble

Affiliation Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Sebastian Haller

Affiliation Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Thomas Harder

Affiliation Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Anja Klingeberg

Affiliation Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Madlen Sixtensson

Affiliation Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Edward Velasco

Affiliation Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Bettina Weiß

Affiliation Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Piotr Kramarz

Affiliation European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden

Dominique L. Monnet

Affiliation European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden

Mirjam E. Kretzschmar

Affiliations Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Carl Suetens

Affiliation European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

MEK is a member of the Editorial Board of PLOS Medicine.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AC DP CS. Data curation: AC DP. Formal analysis: AC DP. Investigation: AC DP. Methodology: AC DP CS MAS HPB TD TE SH TH AK MS EV BW PK DLM MEK. Project administration: AC. Software: AC DP. Supervision: CS DLM MEK. Validation: AC DP CS MEK DLM. Visualization: AC. Writing – original draft: AC DP. Writing – review & editing: AC DP CS MAS HPB TD TE SH TH AK MS EV BW PK DLM MEK.