About the Authors

Makaoui Maatallah

Contributed equally to this work with: Makaoui Maatallah, Malin Vading

Affiliation Laboratoire d’Analyse, Traitement et Valorisation des Polluants de l’Environnement et des Produits, Faculté de Pharmacie, University of Monastir, Montasir, Tunisia

Malin Vading

Contributed equally to this work with: Makaoui Maatallah, Malin Vading

Affiliations Clinical Microbiology, MTC – Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University, Hospital Solna, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital Solna, Stockholm, Sweden

Muhammad Humaun Kabir

Affiliation Clinical Microbiology, MTC – Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University, Hospital Solna, Stockholm, Sweden

Amina Bakhrouf

Affiliation Laboratoire d’Analyse, Traitement et Valorisation des Polluants de l’Environnement et des Produits, Faculté de Pharmacie, University of Monastir, Montasir, Tunisia

Mats Kalin

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital Solna, Stockholm, Sweden

Pontus Nauclér

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital Solna, Stockholm, Sweden

Sylvain Brisse

Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Microbial Evolutionary Genomics, Paris, France, CNRS, Paris, France

Christian G. Giske

christian.giske@karolinska.se

Affiliation Clinical Microbiology, MTC – Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University, Hospital Solna, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

CGG has received speaker’s honorariums from Cubist, AstraZeneca, Pfizer, and Cepheid. He has also received conference support from Cubist, Cepheid and ABBiodisk. Other authors have no interests to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MM MV CGG SB MK PN. Performed the experiments: MM MHK MV. Analyzed the data: MM MV CGG SB MK PN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CGG. Wrote the paper: MM MV CGG SB MK PN AB.