About the Authors

Daniel De Vos

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel De Vos, Jean-Paul Pirnay

Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular and Cellular Technology, Queen Astrid Military Hospital, Brussels, Belgium

Jean-Paul Pirnay

Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel De Vos, Jean-Paul Pirnay

jean-paul.pirnay@mil.be

Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular and Cellular Technology, Queen Astrid Military Hospital, Brussels, Belgium

Florence Bilocq

Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular and Cellular Technology, Queen Astrid Military Hospital, Brussels, Belgium

Serge Jennes

Affiliation Burn Wound Center, Queen Astrid Military Hospital, Brussels, Belgium

Gilbert Verbeken

Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular and Cellular Technology, Queen Astrid Military Hospital, Brussels, Belgium

Thomas Rose

Affiliation Burn Wound Center, Queen Astrid Military Hospital, Brussels, Belgium

Elkana Keersebilck

Affiliation Burn Wound Center, Queen Astrid Military Hospital, Brussels, Belgium

Petra Bosmans

Affiliation Hospital Hygiene and Infection Control Team, Queen Astrid Military Hospital, Brussels, Belgium

Thierry Pieters

Affiliation Hospital Hygiene and Infection Control Team, Queen Astrid Military Hospital, Brussels, Belgium

Mony Hing

Affiliation Clinical Laboratory, Queen Astrid Military Hospital, Brussels, Belgium

Walter Heuninckx

Affiliation Clinical Laboratory, Queen Astrid Military Hospital, Brussels, Belgium

Frank De Pauw

Affiliation Medical Communication and Information Systems, ACOS WB/Health Division, Queen Astrid Military Hospital, Brussels, Belgium

Patrick Soentjens

Affiliation Burn Wound Center, Queen Astrid Military Hospital, Brussels, Belgium

Maia Merabishvili

Affiliations Laboratory for Molecular and Cellular Technology, Queen Astrid Military Hospital, Brussels, Belgium, Laboratory Bacteriology Research, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

Pieter Deschaght

Affiliation Laboratory Bacteriology Research, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

Mario Vaneechoutte

Affiliation Laboratory Bacteriology Research, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

Pierre Bogaerts

Affiliation Laboratoire de Bactériologie, CHU Mont-Godinne, Université Catholique de Louvain, Yvoir, Belgium

Youri Glupczynski

Affiliation Laboratoire de Bactériologie, CHU Mont-Godinne, Université Catholique de Louvain, Yvoir, Belgium

Bruno Pot

Affiliation Applied Maths, Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium

Tanny J. van der Reijden

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases C5-P, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Lenie Dijkshoorn

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases C5-P, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

BP is employed by Applied Maths, which developed one of the software packages that were used to analyse the data. Author BP's commercial affiliation does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DDV JPP SJ YG BP LD. Performed the experiments: FB GV P. Bosmans MH FDP MM PD P. Bogaerts TJvdR. Analyzed the data: DDV JPP SJ TR EK TP WH PS MV YG BP LD. Wrote the paper: DDV JPP SJ TP WH PS MV BP LD.