About the Authors

Enrique Castro-Sánchez

e.castro-sanchez@imperial.ac.uk

Affiliation Centre for Infection Prevention and Management, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Esmita Charani

Affiliation Centre for Infection Prevention and Management, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Lydia N. Drumright

Affiliation Centre for Infection Prevention and Management, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Nick Sevdalis

Affiliation Department of Surgery and Cancer and Imperial Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Nisha Shah

Affiliation Centre for Infection Prevention and Management, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Alison H. Holmes

Affiliation Centre for Infection Prevention and Management, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EC LD AH. Performed the experiments: EC LD. Analyzed the data: ECS EC LD N. Shah. Wrote the paper: ECS EC N. Shah. Revised the manuscript critically and introduced important intellectual content: LD N. Sevdalis AH.