About the Authors

Miranda M. L. van Rijen

mvrijen@amphia.nl (MvR); jankluytmans@gmail.com (JK)

Affiliation Laboratory for Microbiology and Infection Control, Amphia Hospital, Breda, the Netherlands

Thijs Bosch

Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Control Netherlands, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands

Erwin J. M. Verkade

Affiliations Laboratory for Microbiology and Infection Control, Amphia Hospital, Breda, the Netherlands, Laboratory for Medical Microbiology and Immunology, St. Elisabeth Hospital, Tilburg, the Netherlands

Leo Schouls

Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Control Netherlands, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands

Jan A. J. W. Kluytmans

mvrijen@amphia.nl (MvR); jankluytmans@gmail.com (JK)

Affiliations Laboratory for Microbiology and Infection Control, Amphia Hospital, Breda, the Netherlands, Department of Medical Microbiology and Infection ControlJK, VUmc Medical University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

on behalf of the CAM Study Group

Competing Interests

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Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MvR JK. Performed the experiments: MvR TB LS EV. Analyzed the data: MvR TB LS JK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MvR TB EV LS JK. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: MvR TB LS EV JK. Making of figure 1: TB LS.