About the Authors

Anusha van Samkar

Affiliation Academic Medical Center, Center of Infection and Immunity Amsterdam (CINIMA), Department of Neurology, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Matthijs C. Brouwer

Affiliation Academic Medical Center, Center of Infection and Immunity Amsterdam (CINIMA), Department of Neurology, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Constance Schultsz

Affiliation Academic Medical Center, Department of Global Health-Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Arie van der Ende

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

Diederik van de Beek

d.vandebeek@amc.uva.nl

Affiliation Academic Medical Center, Center of Infection and Immunity Amsterdam (CINIMA), Department of Neurology, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AvS MCB CS AvdE DvdB. Performed the experiments: AvS MCB CS DvdB. Analyzed the data: AvS MCB CS AvdE DvdB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AvS MCB AvdE DvdB. Wrote the paper: AvS MCB AvdE CS DvdB.