About the Authors

Jacob M. Bezemer

Contributed equally to this work with: Jacob M. Bezemer, Joanna Merckx

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft

j.m.bezemer@amsterdamumc.nl

Affiliations Hospital Shell, Fundación Misión Cristiana de Salud, Shell, Pastaza, Ecuador, Department of Medical Microbiology and Infection Prevention, Laboratory for Experimental Parasitology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers location Academic Medical Center at the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Amsterdam Institute for infection and Immunity, Infectious Diseases Program, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Joanna Merckx

Contributed equally to this work with: Jacob M. Bezemer, Joanna Merckx

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, Department of Epidemiology and Data Science, Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Byron P. Freire Paspuel

Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratorios de Investigación, Universidad de las Américas, Quito, Ecuador, Vall d’Hebron Research Institute, Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain

Manuel Calvopiña

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation OneHealth Research Group, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de las Américas, Quito, Ecuador

Henry J. C. de Vries

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Amsterdam Institute for infection and Immunity, Infectious Diseases Program, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Department of Infectious Diseases, Center for Sexual Health, Public Health Service, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Henk D. F. H. Schallig

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology and Infection Prevention, Laboratory for Experimental Parasitology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers location Academic Medical Center at the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Amsterdam Institute for infection and Immunity, Infectious Diseases Program, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Mariska M. G. Leeflang

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Data Science, Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Nandini Dendukuri

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: JM was employed by bioMérieux Canada, Inc until July 2021.