Affiliations

• ¹ Southampton University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Microbiology Innovation and Research Unit (MIRU), Microbiology Department, Southampton, UK; University of Southampton, School of Medicine, Southampton, UK. Electronic address: kordosaeed@nhs.net.
• ² Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Salerno, Italy.
• ³ John Hunter Hospital, University of Newcastle, Australia.
• ⁴ AORN dei Colli, Dept of Infectious Diseases, Naples, Italy.
• ⁵ Department of Microbiology, University Hospital Cross House, NHS, Ayrshire & Arran, UK; Faculty of Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK (Honorary Associate Professor).
• ⁶ Infectious Diseases Clinic, Department of Health Sciences and Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, Italy.
• ⁷ Infectious Diseases Clinic, Department of Medicine University of Udine and Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Integrata di Udine, Udine, Italy.
• ⁸ Department of Infectious Diseases, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, National Centre for Infectious Diseases, Singapore.
• ⁹ Menzies School of Health Research, John Hunter Hospital, University of Newcastle, Australia.
• ¹⁰ Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation trust, Winchester and Basingstoke, UK; Public Health England, Rare and Imported Fever Services, Porton Down, UK.
• ¹¹ Department of Orthopaedics, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore.
• ¹² Department of Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Hospital Road, Concord, NSW, Australia; Department of Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
• ¹³ Department of Medical Microbiology, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, UK.
• ¹⁴ Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey.
• ¹⁵ National Centre for Infectious Diseases; Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore.
• ¹⁶ Southampton University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Microbiology Innovation and Research Unit (MIRU), Microbiology Department, Southampton, UK.
• ¹⁷ Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, University of Washington, Seattle Washington, USA.
• ¹⁸ Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.