About the Authors

Lisa J. Krüger

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

Affiliation Division of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Mary Gaeddert

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Frank Tobian

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

Affiliation Division of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Federica Lainati

Roles Investigation, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Claudius Gottschalk

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Julian A. F. Klein

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

Affiliation Division of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Paul Schnitzler

Roles Project administration, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Virology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Hans-Georg Kräusslich

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Virology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Olga Nikolai

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

Affiliation Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine and International Health, Berlin, Germany

Andreas K. Lindner

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine and International Health, Berlin, Germany

Frank P. Mockenhaupt

Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine and International Health, Berlin, Germany

Joachim Seybold

Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Medical Directorate, Berlin, Germany

Victor M. Corman

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision

Affiliations Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Institute of Virology, Berlin, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Charité, Berlin, Germany

Christian Drosten

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision

Affiliations Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Institute of Virology, Berlin, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Charité, Berlin, Germany

Nira R. Pollock

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Britta Knorr

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health Rhein Neckar Region, Heidelberg, Germany

Andreas Welker

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health Rhein Neckar Region, Heidelberg, Germany

Margaretha de Vos

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland

Jilian A. Sacks

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland

Claudia M. Denkinger

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

Claudia.denkinger@uni-heidelberg.de

Affiliations Division of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

for the study team

Membership of the study team are detailed in S1 File.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.