About the Authors

Rasmus Leistner

rasmus.leistner@charite.de

Affiliations Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany, German National Reference Center for the Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections, Berlin, Germany

Elisabeth Meyer

Affiliations Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany, German National Reference Center for the Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections, Berlin, Germany

Petra Gastmeier

Affiliations Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany, German National Reference Center for the Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections, Berlin, Germany

Yvonne Pfeifer

Affiliation Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode, Germany

Christoph Eller

Affiliation Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode, Germany

Petra Dem

Affiliations Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany, German National Reference Center for the Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections, Berlin, Germany

Frank Schwab

Affiliations Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany, German National Reference Center for the Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RL EM PG PD FS. Performed the experiments: YP CE RL PD. Analyzed the data: RL EM PG PD FS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YP CE. Wrote the paper: RL EM PG FS YP.