About the Authors

Gary Mallach

Contributed equally to this work with: Gary Mallach, Samantha B. Kasloff, Tom Kovesi, Anand Kumar

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

gary.mallach@canada.ca

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Water and Air Quality Bureau, Health Canada, Ottawa, Canada

Samantha B. Kasloff

Contributed equally to this work with: Gary Mallach, Samantha B. Kasloff, Tom Kovesi, Anand Kumar

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

Tom Kovesi

Contributed equally to this work with: Gary Mallach, Samantha B. Kasloff, Tom Kovesi, Anand Kumar

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

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Anand Kumar

Contributed equally to this work with: Gary Mallach, Samantha B. Kasloff, Tom Kovesi, Anand Kumar

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Sections of Critical Care Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Departments of Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Ryan Kulka

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Water and Air Quality Bureau, Health Canada, Ottawa, Canada

Jay Krishnan

Roles Methodology

Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

Benoit Robert

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Michaeline McGuinty

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Ottawa Hospital, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Sophia den Otter-Moore

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada

Bashour Yazji

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Ottawa Hospital, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Todd Cutts

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

Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.