About the Authors

Gabriëlla Morroy

g.morroy@ggdhvb.nl

Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Control, Municipal Health Service Hart voor Brabant, 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, Department of Primary and Community Care, Academic Collaborative Centre AMPHI, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Wim van der Hoek

Affiliation Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit, Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands

Jelle Albers

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Control, Municipal Health Service Hart voor Brabant, 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands

Roel A. Coutinho

Affiliation Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Chantal P. Bleeker-Rovers

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Radboud Expertise Center for Q-fever, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Peter M. Schneeberger

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Jeroen Bosch Hospital, 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GM WvdH RAC CPBR PMS. Performed the experiments: GM JA WvdH CPBR PMS. Analyzed the data: GM JA WvdH RAC PMS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GM PMS. Wrote the paper: GM WvdH JA RAC CPBR PMS.