About the Authors

Sabrina Weiss

sabrinanweiss@gmail.com (SW); vicki.chalker@phe.gov.uk (VC)

Affiliations Public Health England (PHE), National Infection Service (NIS), London, United Kingdom, European Programme for Public Health Microbiology (EUPHEM), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden

Angela Menezes

Affiliation Public Health England (PHE), National Infection Service (NIS), London, United Kingdom

Kate Woods

Affiliations Public Health England (PHE), National Infection Service (NIS), London, United Kingdom, Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit (LOMWRU), Vientiane, Lao PDR

Anisone Chanthongthip

Affiliation Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit (LOMWRU), Vientiane, Lao PDR

Sabine Dittrich

Affiliations Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit (LOMWRU), Vientiane, Lao PDR, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), Geneva, Switzerland

Agatha Opoku-Boateng

Affiliation Public Health England (PHE), National Infection Service (NIS), London, United Kingdom

Maimuna Kimuli

Affiliation Public Health England (PHE), National Infection Service (NIS), London, United Kingdom

Victoria Chalker

sabrinanweiss@gmail.com (SW); vicki.chalker@phe.gov.uk (VC)

Affiliation Public Health England (PHE), National Infection Service (NIS), London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VC SW. Performed the experiments: SW AM MK AC AOB. Analyzed the data: SW AM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KW SD. Wrote the paper: SW KW SD VC.