About the Authors

Iren Høyland Löhr

iren.hoyland.lohr@sus.no

Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Nils Hülter

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

Eva Bernhoff

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway

Pål Jarle Johnsen

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

Arnfinn Sundsfjord

Affiliations Department of Medical Biology, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway

Umaer Naseer

Affiliations Department of Medical Biology, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, Department of Food-borne Infections, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IHL NH PJJ AS UN. Performed the experiments: IHL NH EB. Analyzed the data: IHL NH EB UN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IHL NH EB UN. Wrote the paper: IHL NH PJJ UN.