About the Authors

Colin J. Ingham

colinutrecht@gmail.com

Affiliations Jeroen Bosch Hospital, 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands, Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, MicroDish BV, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Sjoukje Boonstra

Affiliation Jeroen Bosch Hospital, 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands

Suzanne Levels

Affiliation Jeroen Bosch Hospital, 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands

Marit de Lange

Affiliation Jeroen Bosch Hospital, 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands

Jacques F. Meis

Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Canisius-Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Peter M. Schneeberger

Affiliation Jeroen Bosch Hospital, 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: CI is an employee of a company that manufactures culture disposables from porous aluminum oxide, but this work is not part of the core commercial interests of MicroDish BV. JFM received grants from Astellas, Merck, Basilea and Schering-Plough. He has been a consultant to Astellas, Basilea and Merck and received speaker's fees from Merck, Pfizer, Schering-Plough and Janssen Pharmaceutica. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CI JM PS. Performed the experiments: CI SB SL MdL. Analyzed the data: CI JM PS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CI JM PS. Wrote the paper: CI JM PS.