About the Authors
- Sarah O’Connell
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* E-mail: soconnell@stjames.ie
Affiliation Department of Genito-Urinary Medicine and Infectious Disease, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
- Darren Lillis
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Affiliation Emergency Medicine Department, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
- Aoife Cotter
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Affiliation Department of Genito-Urinary Medicine and Infectious Disease, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
- Siobhan O’Dea
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Affiliation Department of Genito-Urinary Medicine and Infectious Disease, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
- Helen Tuite
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Affiliation Infectious Diseases Department, Galway University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
- Catherine Fleming
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Affiliation Infectious Diseases Department, Galway University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
- Brendan Crowley
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Affiliation Microbiology Department, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
- Ian Fitzgerald
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Affiliation Microbiology Department, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
- Linda Dalby
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Affiliation Microbiology Department, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
- Helen Barry
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Affiliation Microbiology Department, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
- Darragh Shields
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Affiliation Emergency Medicine Department, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
- Suzanne Norris
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Affiliations Hepatology Department, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, Department of Clinical Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Patrick K. Plunkett
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Affiliation Emergency Medicine Department, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
- Colm Bergin
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Affiliations Department of Genito-Urinary Medicine and Infectious Disease, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, Department of Clinical Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Competing Interests
The authors received funding to complete the research from MSD pharmaceuticals, Gilead and GlaxoSmithKline. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript. This funding has not contributed towards employment, consultancy and is not associated with any patents or products in development or otherwise. There are no restrictions imposed on sharing of data or materials, and this does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SOC HT CF CB SOD SN PKP. Performed the experiments: DL DS LD IF HB BC. Analyzed the data: SOC AC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LD HB IF. Wrote the paper: SOC. Reported results to the study team: BC.