About the Authors

Gerhard Falkenhorst

FalkenhorstG@rki.de

Affiliation Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Cornelius Remschmidt

Affiliation Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Thomas Harder

Affiliation Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Eva Hummers-Pradier

Affiliation Department of General Practice, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Ole Wichmann

Affiliation Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Christian Bogdan

Affiliation Mikrobiologisches Institut – Klinische Mikrobiologie, Immunologie und Hygiene, Friedrich Alexander Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: GF CR TH EHP OW CB. Formal analysis: GF CR TH. Investigation: GF CR TH EHP CB. Methodology: GF CR TH EHP OW CB. Project administration: GF. Resources: OW. Supervision: CB. Validation: GF CR EHP CB. Visualization: GF CR. Writing – original draft: GF CR. Writing – review & editing: TH EHP OW CB.