About the Authors

TeeKeat Teoh

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

Affiliations Department of Clinical Microbiology, University Limerick Hospital Group, Limerick, Ireland, Centre for Interventions in Infection, Inflammation & Immunity (4i) and School of Medicine, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

Rachel McNamara

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

James Powell

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, University Limerick Hospital Group, Limerick, Ireland

Nuala H. O’Connell

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Clinical Microbiology, University Limerick Hospital Group, Limerick, Ireland, Centre for Interventions in Infection, Inflammation & Immunity (4i) and School of Medicine, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

Colum P. Dunne

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

colum.dunne@ul.ie

Affiliation Centre for Interventions in Infection, Inflammation & Immunity (4i) and School of Medicine, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.