About the Authors

Aatish Patel

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

aatishpatel@nhs.net (AP); e.charani@imperial.ac.uk (EC)

Affiliation Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

Ahmed Abdulaal

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

David Ariyanayagam

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Imperial College London, Kensington, London, United Kingdom

Kieran Killington

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

Sarah J. Denny

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

Nabeela Mughal

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

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

Nupur Goel

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

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

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

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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.