About the Authors
- Aatish Patel
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: aatishpatel@nhs.net (AP); e.charani@imperial.ac.uk (EC)
Affiliation Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
- Ahmed Abdulaal
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
- David Ariyanayagam
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Imperial College London, Kensington, London, United Kingdom
- Kieran Killington
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Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
- Sarah J. Denny
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Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
- Nabeela Mughal
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Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom, Imperial College London, Kensington, London, United Kingdom, North West London Pathology, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
- Stephen Hughes
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Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
- Nupur Goel
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Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom, North West London Pathology, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
- Gary W. Davies
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Roles Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom, Imperial College London, Kensington, London, United Kingdom
- Luke S. P. Moore
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Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom, North West London Pathology, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom, Imperial College London, NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance, Hammersmith Campus, London, United Kingdom
- Esmita Charani
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: aatishpatel@nhs.net (AP); e.charani@imperial.ac.uk (EC)
Affiliation Imperial College London, NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance, Hammersmith Campus, London, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following competing interests: All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form at (www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf). EC has received speaker fees from bioMerieux (2019). NM has received speaker fees from Beyer (2016) and Pfizer (2019) and received educational support from Eumedica (2016) and Baxter (2017). LSPM has consulted for bioMerieux (2013), DNAelectronics (2015–18), Dairy Crest (2017–2018), Umovis Lab (2020), and Pfizer (2018–2020), received speaker fees from Profile Pharma (2018–2019), received research grants from the National Institute for Health Research (2013–2020), CW+ Charity (2018–2019), and Leo Pharma (2016), and received educational support from Eumedica (2016–2018). 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 associated with this research to declare. AP, AA, DA, KK, SP, SD, SH, NG and GD none to declare.