About the Authors

Alexia Verroken

alexia.verroken@uclouvain.be

Affiliations Institut de recherche expérimentale et clinique (IREC), pôle de microbiologie (MBLG), Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium, Laboratoire de microbiologie, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc – Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

Lydwine Defourny

Affiliation Laboratoire de microbiologie, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc – Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

Olivier le Polain de Waroux

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Leïla Belkhir

Affiliation Département de médecine interne et pathologies infectieuses, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc – Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

Pierre-François Laterre

Affiliation Département des soins intensifs, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc – Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

Michel Delmée

Affiliations Institut de recherche expérimentale et clinique (IREC), pôle de microbiologie (MBLG), Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium, Laboratoire de microbiologie, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc – Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

Youri Glupczynski

Affiliation National Reference Centre for Monitoring Antimicrobial Resistance in Gram-negative bacteria, CHU UCL Namur, Yvoir, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AV LD LB PFL MD YG. Performed the experiments: AV LD LB PFL. Analyzed the data: AV LD OLPDW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AV OLPDW. Wrote the paper: AV OLPDW YG. Reviewed the paper: AV LD OLPDW LB PFL MD YG.