About the Authors

Rein Jan Piso

Contributed equally to this work with: Rein Jan Piso, Roman Käch

jan.piso@spital.so.ch

Affiliation Medical Clinic, Cantonal Hospital of Olten, Olten, Switzerland

Roman Käch

Contributed equally to this work with: Rein Jan Piso, Roman Käch

Affiliation Medical Clinic, Cantonal Hospital of Olten, Olten, Switzerland

Roxana Pop

Affiliation Medical Clinic, Cantonal Hospital of Olten, Olten, Switzerland

Daniela Zillig

Affiliation Medical Clinic, Cantonal Hospital of Olten, Olten, Switzerland

Urs Schibli

Affiliation Bakt Institut Olten BIO AG, Olten, Switzerland

Stefano Bassetti

Affiliation Division of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Dominik Meinel

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Clinical Microbiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Applied Microbiology Research, Department Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Adrian Egli

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Clinical Microbiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Applied Microbiology Research, Department Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Competing Interests

US is employed by Bakt. Institut Olten BIO AG. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RJP RP AE. Data curation: RJP RK RP DZ. Formal analysis: RJP RK AE DM. Funding acquisition: RJP AE. Investigation: RJP RK RP DZ US AE DM. Methodology: RJP RK SB US AE DM. Project administration: RJP. Resources: US AE DM. Software: RJP AE DM. Supervision: RJP AE SB. Validation: RJP AE DM. Visualization: RJP DM AE. Writing – original draft: RJP RK AE DM. Writing – review & editing: RJP RK AE DM SB.