About the Authors

Olle Björkqvist

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

olle.bjorkqvist@regionorebrolan.se

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden

Ignacio Rangel

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medical Sciences, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden

Lena Serrander

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

Affiliation Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Cecilia Magnusson

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

Affiliations Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Department of Infectious Diseases, Region Jönköping County, Jönköping, Sweden

Jonas Halfvarson

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden, School of Medical Sciences, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden

Torbjörn Norén

Contributed equally to this work with: Torbjörn Norén, Malin Bergman-Jungeström

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

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and Health, Department of Laboratory Medicine, National Reference Laboratory for Clostridioides Difficile, Clinical Microbiology, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden

Malin Bergman-Jungeström

Contributed equally to this work with: Torbjörn Norén, Malin Bergman-Jungeström

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Jonas Halfvarson has received consultant/lecture fees from Abbvie, Celgene, Ferring, Hospira, Janssen, Medivir, MSD, Pfizer, Sandoz, Shire, Takeda, Tillotts Pharma, Tillotts and Vifor Pharma and grant support from Janssen, MSD and Takeda. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.