About the Authors

Judit Villar-García

jvillar@hospitaldelmar.cat

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain, IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute, Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mediques), Barcelona, Spain, Department of Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Robert Güerri-Fernández

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain, IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute, Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mediques), Barcelona, Spain, Department of Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Andrés Moya

Affiliations Joint Unit of Research in Genomics and Health, Foundation for the Promotion of Health and Biomedical Research in the Valencian Community (FISABIO) and Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology (Universitat de València), València, Spain, CIBER en Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Madrid, Spain

Alicia González

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain, IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute, Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mediques), Barcelona, Spain

Juan J. Hernández

Affiliation Reference Laboratory of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

Elisabet Lerma

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain, IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute, Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mediques), Barcelona, Spain

Ana Guelar

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain, IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute, Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mediques), Barcelona, Spain

Luisa Sorli

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain, IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute, Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mediques), Barcelona, Spain

Juan P. Horcajada

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain, IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute, Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mediques), Barcelona, Spain, Department of Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Alejandro Artacho

Affiliation Joint Unit of Research in Genomics and Health, Foundation for the Promotion of Health and Biomedical Research in the Valencian Community (FISABIO) and Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology (Universitat de València), València, Spain

Giuseppe D´Auria

Affiliations Joint Unit of Research in Genomics and Health, Foundation for the Promotion of Health and Biomedical Research in the Valencian Community (FISABIO) and Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology (Universitat de València), València, Spain, CIBER en Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Madrid, Spain

Hernando Knobel

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain, IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute, Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mediques), Barcelona, Spain, Department of Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JV. Data curation: JV RG HK A González EL A Guelar LS. Formal analysis: HK AA GD AM. Funding acquisition: JV HK. Investigation: JV GD. Methodology: JV JJH AA GD. Project administration: JV HK. Resources: JV JPH A González GD. Software: AA GD AM. Supervision: JV HK AM GD. Validation: JJH AA GD AM HK. Visualization: JV RG HK GD. Writing – original draft: JV. Writing – review & editing: JV RG HK GD AM AA.