About the Authors

Annika Karlsson

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Per Björkman

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Malmö Infectious Disease Research Unit, Malmö University Hospital, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Göran Bratt

Affiliation Venhälsan, Stockholm South General Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Håkan Ekvall

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Sundsvall Hospital, Sundsvall, Sweden

Magnus Gisslén

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Anders Sönnerborg

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Mattias Mild

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, Swedish Institute for Communicable Diseases, Stockholm, Sweden

Jan Albert

jan.albert@ki.se

Affiliations Department of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AK MM JA. Performed the experiments: AK MM JA. Analyzed the data: AK MM JA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PB GB HE MG AS. Wrote the paper: AK PB GB HE MG AS MM JA.