About the Authors

Octavio Mesa-Varona

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

Octavio.Mesa-Varona@bfr.bund.de

Affiliation Department Biological Safety, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany

Heike Kaspar

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department Method Standardisation, Reference Laboratories, Resistance to Antibiotics, Berlin, Germany, Unit Monitoring of Resistance to Antibiotics, Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety, Berlin, Germany

Mirjam Grobbel

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department Biological Safety, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany

Bernd-Alois Tenhagen

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

Affiliation Department Biological Safety, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.