About the Authors

Mark Postans

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

mark.postans@wales.nhs.ukc

‡ MP and NP are contributed equally to this work and share first authorship.

Affiliation Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre (CDSC), Public Health Wales, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Nicole Pacchiarini

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

‡ MP and NP are contributed equally to this work and share first authorship.

Affiliation Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre (CDSC), Public Health Wales, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Jiao Song

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre (CDSC), Public Health Wales, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Simon Cottrell

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre (CDSC), Public Health Wales, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Catie Williams

Roles Data curation, Software

Affiliation Pathogen Genomics Unit, Public Health Wales, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Andrew Beazer

Roles Data curation, Software

Affiliation Pathogen Genomics Unit, Public Health Wales, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Catherine Moore

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Wales Specialist Virology Centre, Microbiology, Public Health Wales, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Thomas R. Connor

Roles Supervision

Affiliations Pathogen Genomics Unit, Public Health Wales, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom, Cardiff University School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom

Christopher Williams

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre (CDSC), Public Health Wales, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.