About the Authors

Helen E. McNeil

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

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Infection, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Ilyas Alav

Contributed equally to this work with: Ilyas Alav, Ricardo Corona Torres

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Infection, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Ricardo Corona Torres

Contributed equally to this work with: Ilyas Alav, Ricardo Corona Torres

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom

Amanda E. Rossiter

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Infection, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Eve Laycock

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Infection, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Simon Legood

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Infection, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Inderpreet Kaur

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Infection, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Matthew Davies

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Infection, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Matthew Wand

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

Affiliation Public Health England, National Infection Service, Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom

Mark A. Webber

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

Affiliation Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom

Vassiliy N. Bavro

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

v.bavro@essex.ac.uk (VNB); j.m.a.blair@bham.ac.uk (JMAB)

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom

Jessica M. A. Blair

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

v.bavro@essex.ac.uk (VNB); j.m.a.blair@bham.ac.uk (JMAB)

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Infection, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.