About the Authors

Siobhain Mulrennan

Siobhain.Mulrennan@health.wa.gov.au

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia

Simone Sara Tempone

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, PathWest Laboratory Medicine Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia

Ivan Thian Wai Ling

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia

Simon Hedley Williams

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, PathWest Laboratory Medicine Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia

Gek-Choo Gan

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia

Ronan John Murray

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, PathWest Laboratory Medicine Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia, Department of Infectious Diseases, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia

David John Speers

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, PathWest Laboratory Medicine Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia, Department of Infectious Diseases, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia, Department of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SAM RJM DJS. Analyzed the data: SAM SST ITWL SHW GCG DJS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SST SHW DJS. Wrote the paper: SAM ITWL RJM DJS.