About the Authors

John Paget

j.paget@nivel.nl

Affiliations Radboud University Medical Center, Department of Primary and Community Care, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (NIVEL), Utrecht, the Netherlands

Helen Aangenend

Affiliations Radboud University Medical Center, Department of Primary and Community Care, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, GGD Gelderland-Zuid (Municipal Health Service Gelderland-South), Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Malte Kühn

Affiliation University Hospital Münster, Institute of Hygiene, Münster, Germany

Jeannine Hautvast

Affiliations Radboud University Medical Center, Department of Primary and Community Care, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, GGD Gelderland-Zuid (Municipal Health Service Gelderland-South), Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Desiree van Oorschot

Affiliation Radboud University Medical Center, Department of Primary and Community Care, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Alphons Olde Loohuis

Affiliation Radboud University Medical Center, Department of Primary and Community Care, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Koos van der Velden

Affiliation Radboud University Medical Center, Department of Primary and Community Care, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Alexander W. Friedrich

Affiliation University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Medical Microbiology, Groningen, the Netherlands

Andreas Voss

Affiliations Canisius-Wilhelmina Hospital, Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, Radboud University Medical Center, Department of Medical Microbiology, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Robin Köck

Affiliation University Hospital Münster, Institute of Hygiene, Münster, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JP RK AV AF AOL JH KvdV. Performed the experiments: HA DvO MK RK AV JP. Analyzed the data: HA JP DvO RK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AV RK HA DvO JP. Wrote the paper: JP HA RK.