About the Authors

Gabriella Morroy

Contributed equally to this work with: Gabriella Morroy, Stephan P. Keijmel

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Municipal Health Service Hart voor Brabant, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands

Stephan P. Keijmel

Contributed equally to this work with: Gabriella Morroy, Stephan P. Keijmel

Affiliations Radboud Expertise Centre for Q fever, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, Expert Centre for Chronic Fatigue, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Corine E. Delsing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Medisch Spectrum Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands

Gijs Bleijenberg

Affiliation Expert Centre for Chronic Fatigue, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Miranda Langendam

Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Aura Timen

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

Chantal P. Bleeker-Rovers

chantal.bleeker-rovers@radboudumc.nl

Affiliations Radboud Expertise Centre for Q fever, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GM SPK AT CPBR ML. Performed the experiments: GM SPK. Analyzed the data: GM SPK AT CPBR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: Not applicable. Wrote the paper: GM SPK. Critical revisions during the drafting of the manuscript: CED GB ML AT CPBR. Assisted in the search strategy: ML.