About the Authors

Brice Leclère

brice.leclere@univ-nantes.fr

Affiliations Department of Medical Evaluation and Epidemiology, Nantes University Hospital, Nantes, France, MiHAR laboratory, Nantes University, Nantes, France

David L. Buckeridge

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Pierre-Yves Boëlle

Contributed equally to this work with: Pierre-Yves Boëlle, Pascal Astagneau

Affiliation UMR S 1136, Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health, Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France

Pascal Astagneau

Contributed equally to this work with: Pierre-Yves Boëlle, Pascal Astagneau

Affiliations Department of Public Health, Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France, Centre de Coordination de la Lutte contre les Infections Nosocomiales Paris-Nord, Hôpital Broussais, Paris, France

Didier Lepelletier

Affiliations MiHAR laboratory, Nantes University, Nantes, France, Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, Nantes University Hospital, Nantes, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: BL DB. Data curation: BL. Formal analysis: BL. Investigation: BL. Methodology: BL DB PYB PA. Software: BL. Supervision: DL DB. Visualization: BL. Writing – original draft: BL DB. Writing – review & editing: BL DB DL PYB PA.