About the Authors

Michael Dalager-Pedersen

midp@rn.dk

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

Mette Søgaard

Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

Henrik C. Schønheyder

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark

Reimar W. Thomsen

Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

John A. Baron

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Henrik Nielsen

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MDP MS HCS RWT JAB HN. Performed the experiments: MDP MS HCS RWT JAB HN. Analyzed the data: MDP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MDP MS HCS RWT JAB HN. Wrote the paper: MDP. Critical revision of the manuscript: MDP MS HCS RWT JAB HN. Final approval of the manuscript: MDP MS HCS RWT JAB HN.