About the Authors

Bernd Neumann

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

neumannb@rki.de

Affiliation Division of Nosocomial Pathogens and Antibiotic Resistance, Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode, Germany

Jennifer K. Bender

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Nosocomial Pathogens and Antibiotic Resistance, Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode, Germany

Benjamin F. Maier

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Computational Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany, Department of Physics, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Alice Wittig

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Computational Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany, Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Stephan Fuchs

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Nosocomial Pathogens and Antibiotic Resistance, Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode, Germany

Dirk Brockmann

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Computational Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany, Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Torsten Semmler

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Microbial Genomics, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Hermann Einsele

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital Würzburg, Wüzburg, Germany

Sabrina Kraus

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital Würzburg, Wüzburg, Germany

Lothar H. Wieler

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Ulrich Vogel

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, Julius-Maximilians University Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Guido Werner

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

Affiliation Division of Nosocomial Pathogens and Antibiotic Resistance, Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.