About the Authors

Robert Antonius Gerhardus Huis in 't Veld

r.a.g.huisintveld@amc.nl

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Center of Infection and Immunity Amsterdam (CINIMA), Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Antonius Marcellinus Willemsen

Affiliation Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Antonius Hubertus Cornelis van Kampen

Affiliations Bioinformatics Laboratory, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Biosystems Data Analysis, Swammerdam Institute for Life Science, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Edward John Bradley

Affiliation Department of Genome Analysis, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Frank Baas

Affiliation Department of Genome Analysis, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Yvonne Pannekoek

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Center of Infection and Immunity Amsterdam (CINIMA), Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Arie van der Ende

Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, Center of Infection and Immunity Amsterdam (CINIMA), Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Reference Laboratory for Bacterial Meningitis, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RAGH YP AVDE. Performed the experiments: RAGH EJB. Analyzed the data: RAGH AMW AHCVK YP AVDE FB. Wrote the paper: RAGH YP AVDE.