About the Authors

Ewert Linder

ewert.linder@smi.ki.se

Affiliations Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI), Solna, Sweden, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cellbiology (MTC), Stockholm, Sweden

Mikael Lundin

Affiliation Biomedical Informatics Research Group, Folkhälsan Research Center and Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Helsinki, HUCH Clinical Research Institute, Helsinki, Finland

Cecilia Thors

Affiliations Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI), Solna, Sweden, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cellbiology (MTC), Stockholm, Sweden

Marianne Lebbad

Affiliation Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI), Solna, Sweden

Jadwiga Winiecka-Krusnell

Affiliation Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI), Solna, Sweden

Heikki Helin

Affiliation Division of Pathology, HUSLAB, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

Byron Leiva

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, National University of Léon (UNAN), Léon, Nicaragua

Jorma Isola

Affiliation Institute of Medical Technology, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland

Johan Lundin

Affiliation Biomedical Informatics Research Group, Folkhälsan Research Center and Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Helsinki, HUCH Clinical Research Institute, Helsinki, Finland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EL ML. Performed the experiments: ML CT ML JWK HH JL. Analyzed the data: CT ML JWK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CT ML BL JI JL. Wrote the paper: EL.