Achim J. Kaasch a, ⁎
, Gavin Barlow b, Jonathan D. Edgeworth c, Vance G. Fowler d, Martin Hellmich e, Susan Hopkins f, Winfried V. Kern g, Martin J. Llewelyn h, Siegbert Rieg g, Jesús Rodriguez-Baño i, j, Matthew Scarborough k, Harald Seifert a, Alex Soriano l, Robert Tilley m, M. Esteé Tőrők n, Verena Weiß e, A. Peter R. Wilson o, Guy E. Thwaites c, p
on behalf ofISAC, INSTINCT, SABG, UKCIRG, and Colleaguesq
With linked authorship to all colleagues in the Acknowledgements section.
a Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, University of Cologne, Germany
b Department of Infection and Tropical Medicine, Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Hull, United Kingdom
c Centre for Clinical Infection and Diagnostics Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, Kings College London & Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
d Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
e Institute of Medical Statistics, Informatics and Epidemiology, University of Cologne, Germany
f Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
g Center for Infectious Diseases and Travel Medicine, Department of Medicine, University Hospital of Freiburg, Germany
h Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, Brighton, United Kingdom
i Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology Unit, Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena, Spain
j Department of Medicine, University of Seville, Seville, Spain
k Department of Infectious Diseases, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom
l Service of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Clınic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
m Department of Microbiology, Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Plymouth, United Kingdom
n Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
o Department of Microbiology, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
p Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom