About the Authors

Tjibbe Donker

tjibbe.donker@ndm.ox.ac.uk

Affiliations The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Protection Research Unit in Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance at University of Oxford in partnership with Public Health England, Oxford, United Kingdom, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, National Infection Service, Public Health England, Colindale, London, United Kingdom

Timo Smieszek

Affiliations National Infection Service, Public Health England, Colindale, London, United Kingdom, MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Katherine L. Henderson

Affiliation National Infection Service, Public Health England, Colindale, London, United Kingdom

Alan P. Johnson

Affiliations The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Protection Research Unit in Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance at University of Oxford in partnership with Public Health England, Oxford, United Kingdom, National Infection Service, Public Health England, Colindale, London, United Kingdom

A. Sarah Walker

Contributed equally to this work with: A. Sarah Walker, Julie V. Robotham

Affiliations The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Protection Research Unit in Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance at University of Oxford in partnership with Public Health England, Oxford, United Kingdom, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Julie V. Robotham

Contributed equally to this work with: A. Sarah Walker, Julie V. Robotham

Affiliations The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Protection Research Unit in Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance at University of Oxford in partnership with Public Health England, Oxford, United Kingdom, National Infection Service, Public Health England, Colindale, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: TD TS ASW JVR. Data curation: KLH APJ. Formal analysis: TD TS. Investigation: TD TS KLH APJ. Methodology: TD TS. Writing – original draft: TD TS ASW JVR. Writing – review & editing: TD TS KLH APJ ASW JVR.