About the Authors

Matthijs C. Brouwer

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

Frank Baas

Affiliation Department of Genome Analysis, Academic Medical Center, Center of Infection and Immunity Amsterdam (CINIMA), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Arie van der Ende

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

Diederik van de Beek

d.vandebeek@amc.uva.nl

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

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