About the Authors

Clíona Ní Cheallaigh

nicheacm@tcd.ie (CNC); cbergin@stjames.ie (CB)

Affiliations Department of Genito-Urinary Medicine and Infectious Diseases, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, Department of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Trinity College Dublin and St. James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Ian Fitzgerald

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Jacinta Grace

Affiliation Department of Genito-Urinary Medicine and Infectious Diseases, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Gurmit Jagjit Singh

Affiliation Department of Genito-Urinary Medicine and Infectious Diseases, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Nahla El-Eraki

Affiliation Department of Genito-Urinary Medicine and Infectious Diseases, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Noel Gibbons

Affiliation Irish Mycobacterial Reference Laboratory, Central Pathology Laboratory, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Joseph Keane

Affiliation Department of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Trinity College Dublin and St. James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Thomas R. Rogers

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Susan Clarke

Affiliation Department of Genito-Urinary Medicine and Infectious Diseases, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Colm Bergin

nicheacm@tcd.ie (CNC); cbergin@stjames.ie (CB)

Affiliation Department of Genito-Urinary Medicine and Infectious Diseases, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Participant recruitment: JG. Data entry: NE GS. Obtained funding: SC TR NG. Supervised the Study: CB. Conceived and designed the experiments: CNC IF NG SC JK TR CB. Performed the experiments: IF. Analyzed the data: CNC IF. Wrote the paper: CNC CB.