About the Authors

Jonas Bonnedahl

Contributed equally to this work with: Jonas Bonnedahl, Mirva Drobni

Affiliations Department of Medical Sciences, Section of Infectious Diseases, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Clinical Microbiology, Kalmar County Hospital, Kalmar, Sweden

Mirva Drobni

Contributed equally to this work with: Jonas Bonnedahl, Mirva Drobni

mirva.drobni@medsci.uu.se

Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, Section of Infectious Diseases, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Michel Gauthier-Clerc

Affiliation Centre de Recherche de la Tour du Valat, Le Sambuc, Arles, France

Jorge Hernandez

Affiliations Department of Medical Sciences, Section of Infectious Diseases, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Clinical Microbiology, Kalmar County Hospital, Kalmar, Sweden

Susanne Granholm

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Bacteriology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Yves Kayser

Affiliation Centre de Recherche de la Tour du Valat, Le Sambuc, Arles, France

Åsa Melhus

Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, Section of Clinical Bacteriology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Gunnar Kahlmeter

Affiliations Department of Medical Sciences, Section of Clinical Bacteriology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Clinical Microbiology, Central Hospital, Växjö, Sweden

Jonas Waldenström

Affiliations Department of Medical Sciences, Section of Infectious Diseases, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, School of Natural Sciences, Section of Zoonotic Ecology and Epidemiology, University of Kalmar, Kalmar, Sweden

Anders Johansson

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Bacteriology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Björn Olsen

Affiliations Department of Medical Sciences, Section of Infectious Diseases, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, School of Natural Sciences, Section of Zoonotic Ecology and Epidemiology, University of Kalmar, Kalmar, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JB MD AJ BO. Performed the experiments: MD MGC JH SG ÅM. Analyzed the data: JB MD SG ÅM GK JW AJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MGC YK. Wrote the paper: JB MD AJ BO.