About the Authors

Jesús Guinea

jguineaortega@yahoo.es (JG); pilar.escribano.martos@gmail.com (PE)

Affiliations Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES CB06/06/0058), Madrid, Spain, Medicine Department, School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Pilar Escribano

jguineaortega@yahoo.es (JG); pilar.escribano.martos@gmail.com (PE)

Affiliations Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain

Antonio Vena

Affiliations Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain

Patricia Muñoz

Affiliations Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES CB06/06/0058), Madrid, Spain, Medicine Department, School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

María del Carmen Martínez-Jiménez

Affiliations Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain

Belén Padilla

Affiliations Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES CB06/06/0058), Madrid, Spain

Emilio Bouza

Affiliations Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES CB06/06/0058), Madrid, Spain, Medicine Department, School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

We have the following interests. This study was partly funded by CM-SANTANDER and Gilead. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JG EB. Data curation: JG PE. Formal analysis: JG PE. Funding acquisition: JG EB. Investigation: JG PE AV PM MCMJ BP. Methodology: JG PE. Resources: JG PE AV. Software: JG PE. Supervision: EB. Validation: JG EB. Writing – original draft: PE. Writing – review & editing: JG EB.