About the Authors

Béatrice Jans

Contributed equally to this work with: Béatrice Jans, Didier Schoevaerdts

Affiliation Epidemiology Unit, Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium

Didier Schoevaerdts

Contributed equally to this work with: Béatrice Jans, Didier Schoevaerdts

didier.schoevaerdts@uclouvain.be

Affiliation Department of Geriatric Medicine, CHU UCL Mont-Godinne-Dinant, Yvoir, Belgium and Institute of Health and Society, Catholic University of Louvain, Public Health School, Brussels, Belgium

Te-Din Huang

Affiliation National Reference laboratory for monitoring of Antimicrobial Resistance in Gram-negative bacteria, Department of Clinical Microbiology, CHU UCL Mont-Godinne-Dinant, Catholic University of Louvain, Yvoir, Belgium

Catherine Berhin

Affiliation National Reference laboratory for monitoring of Antimicrobial Resistance in Gram-negative bacteria, Department of Clinical Microbiology, CHU UCL Mont-Godinne-Dinant, Catholic University of Louvain, Yvoir, Belgium

Katrien Latour

Affiliation Epidemiology Unit, Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium

Pierre Bogaerts

Affiliation National Reference laboratory for monitoring of Antimicrobial Resistance in Gram-negative bacteria, Department of Clinical Microbiology, CHU UCL Mont-Godinne-Dinant, Catholic University of Louvain, Yvoir, Belgium

Claire Nonhoff

Affiliation National Reference Laboratory of MRSA and Staphylococci, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Hôpital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

Olivier Denis

Affiliation National Reference Laboratory of MRSA and Staphylococci, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Hôpital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

Boudewijn Catry

Affiliation Epidemiology Unit, Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium

Youri Glupczynski

Affiliation National Reference laboratory for monitoring of Antimicrobial Resistance in Gram-negative bacteria, Department of Clinical Microbiology, CHU UCL Mont-Godinne-Dinant, Catholic University of Louvain, Yvoir, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BJ DS TDH CB KL PB CN OD BC YG. Performed the experiments: BJ DS TDH CB KL PB CN OD BC YG. Analyzed the data: BJ DS TDH CB KL PB CN OD BC YG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BJ DS TDH CB KL PB CN OD BC YG. Wrote the paper: BJ DS TDH CB KL PB CN OD BC YG.