About the Authors

Kathrin Spettel

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Wolfgang Barousch

Roles Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Athanasios Makristathis

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Iris Zeller

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Marion Nehr

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Brigitte Selitsch

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Michaela Lackner

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Hygiene and Medical Microbiology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

Peter-Michael Rath

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Joerg Steinmann

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany, Institute of Clinical Hygiene, Medical Microbiology and Infectiology, Paracelsus Medical University, Nuremberg, Germany

Birgit Willinger

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

birgit.willinger@meduniwien.ac.at

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Competing Interests

Author BW received travel grants and honoraria as a referee from Pfizer and Astellas. She is also a member of the advisory board of Merck Sharp& Dohme Austria and served at the speaker’s bureau of Basilea and Gilead. The other authors have no conflict of interests to declare. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.