About the Authors

Pieter Willem Smit

Pieter.smit@thl.fi

Affiliations European Public Health Microbiology Training Programme, (EUPHEM), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

Marjo Haanperä

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

Pirre Rantala

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

David Couvin

Affiliation WHO Supranational TB Reference Laboratory, Tuberculosis & Mycobacteria Unit, Institut Pasteur de la Guadeloupe, Abymes, France

Outi Lyytikäinen

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

Nalin Rastogi

Affiliation WHO Supranational TB Reference Laboratory, Tuberculosis & Mycobacteria Unit, Institut Pasteur de la Guadeloupe, Abymes, France

Petri Ruutu

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

Hanna Soini

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PWS MH DC OL NR HS P. Ruutu. Performed the experiments: PWS HS OL MH P. Rantala. Analyzed the data: PWS NR DC HS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PWS DC NR P. Rantala MH HS P. Ruutu. Wrote the manuscript: PWS NR HS OL MH P. Ruutu P. Rantala.