About the Authors

Daniel Eibach

eibach@bnitm.de

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), Hamburg, Germany

Silvia Herrera-León

Affiliation National Center of Microbiology, Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Horacio Gil

Affiliations National Center of Microbiology, Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, European Public Health Microbiology Training Programme (EUPHEM), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden

Benedikt Hogan

Affiliations Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), Hamburg, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Hamburg-Borstel-Lübeck, Germany

Lutz Ehlkes

Affiliations Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), Hamburg, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Hamburg-Borstel-Lübeck, Germany

Michael Adjabeng

Affiliation Ghana Health Service, Disease Surveillance Service, Accra, Ghana

Benno Kreuels

Affiliations Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), Hamburg, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Hamburg-Borstel-Lübeck, Germany, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Hamburg, Germany

Michael Nagel

Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kumasi, Ghana

David Opare

Affiliation Ghana Health Service, National Public Health and Reference Laboratory (NPHRL), Accra, Ghana

Julius N Fobil

Affiliation Department of Biological, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Jürgen May

Affiliations Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), Hamburg, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Hamburg-Borstel-Lübeck, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DE SHL HG BH JM JNF. Performed the experiments: HG SHL. Analyzed the data: DE SHL HG BK LE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MA DO MN. Wrote the paper: DE SHL HG JM.