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¹ Federal Office for Civil Protection, Spiez Laboratory, Bacteriology, Spiez, Switzerland; University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Laboratory for Applied Microbiology, Bellinzona, Switzerland; University of Bern, Institute for Infectious Diseases, Bern, Switzerland. Electronic address: maximilian.brackmann@babs.admin.ch.
² University of Bern, Institute for Infectious Diseases, Bern, Switzerland.
³ University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Laboratory for Applied Microbiology, Bellinzona, Switzerland; University of Geneva, Microbial Ecology and Biosafety, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁴ Federal Office for Civil Protection, Spiez Laboratory, Bacteriology, Spiez, Switzerland.

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M Brackmann et al. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2020 Mar.

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. 2020 Mar;26(3):391-393.

doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2019.10.027. Epub 2019 Nov 1.

¹ Federal Office for Civil Protection, Spiez Laboratory, Bacteriology, Spiez, Switzerland; University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Laboratory for Applied Microbiology, Bellinzona, Switzerland; University of Bern, Institute for Infectious Diseases, Bern, Switzerland. Electronic address: maximilian.brackmann@babs.admin.ch.
² University of Bern, Institute for Infectious Diseases, Bern, Switzerland.
³ University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Laboratory for Applied Microbiology, Bellinzona, Switzerland; University of Geneva, Microbial Ecology and Biosafety, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁴ Federal Office for Civil Protection, Spiez Laboratory, Bacteriology, Spiez, Switzerland.

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