Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Zurich CH-8032, Switzerland. Electronic address: patrick.meyersauteur@kispi.uzh.ch.
• ² Microbiology and Infection Research Group, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff, UK.
• ³ Bacteriology Department, Bordeaux University Hospital, National Reference Center for Bacterial Sexually Transmitted Infections, Bordeaux, France.
• ⁴ Pediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland.
• ⁵ Bacteriology Laboratory, Division of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Diagnostics, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland.
• ⁶ Laboratories, Clinique de La Source, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• ⁷ Institute of Microbiology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• ⁸ Department of Pediatrics, Fribourg Hospital and University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
• ⁹ Department of Pediatrics, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Switzerland.
• ¹⁰ Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Lucerne Children's Hospital, Lucerne Cantonal Hospital, Switzerland.
• ¹¹ Institute of Pediatrics of Southern Switzerland, EOC, Bellinzona, Switzerland.
• ¹² Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, Bellinzona, Switzerland.
• ¹³ Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
• ¹⁴ Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Children's Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
• ¹⁵ Children's Hospital of Eastern Switzerland, St Gallen, Switzerland.
• ¹⁶ Center for Laboratory Medicine, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
• ¹⁷ Cantonal Hospital Aarau, Switzerland.
• ¹⁸ Department of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, University of Basel Children's Hospital (UKBB), Switzerland.
• ¹⁹ Clinical Bacteriology and Mycology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
• ²⁰ Institute for Hygiene and Public Health, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
• ²¹ Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany.
• ²² Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
• ²³ Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, Heinrich-Heine University Hospital, Düsseldorf, Germany.
• ²⁴ Belgian Sentinel Network of Laboratories (SNL), coordinated by the national public health institute Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium.
• ²⁵ Department of Microbiology, Belgian National Reference Centre for Respiratory Pathogens, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium.
• ²⁶ Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
• ²⁷ Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center-Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
• ²⁸ Respiratory and Vaccine Preventable Bacteria Reference Unit (RVPBRU), UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), London, United Kingdom.
• ²⁹ Public Health Wales, Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
• ³⁰ Department of Bacteria, Parasites and Fungi, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ³¹ Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Prevention, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ³² Center for Research and Development, Uppsala University/Region Gävleborg, Gävle, Sweden.
• ³³ Department of Clinical Microbiology, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland, and Institute of Biomedicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
• ³⁴ Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Turku University Hospital and University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
• ³⁵ New Children's Hospital, Pediatric Research Center, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
• ³⁶ Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Children's Clinic, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway.
• ³⁷ Department of Medical Microbiology, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway.
• ³⁸ Department of Woman and Child Health and Public Health, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, Rome, Italy.
• ³⁹ Emergency Service and Infectiology Unit, Pediatric Hospital, Coimbra Hospital and University Center, Coimbra, Portugal.
• ⁴⁰ Department of Pediatrics, Centro Hospitalar Tondela-Viseu, Viseu, Portugal.
• ⁴¹ Department of Microbiology & Serology, P. & A. Kyriakou Children's Hospital, Athens, Greece.
• ⁴² Microbiology Department, "Agia Sofia" Children's Hospital, Athens, Greece.
• ⁴³ Collaborative Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Outcomes Research (CLEO), Athens, Greece.
• ⁴⁴ Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• ⁴⁵ Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
• ⁴⁶ Department of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Japan.
• ⁴⁷ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Mitaka City, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁴⁸ Department of Bacteriology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁴⁹ Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Children's Hospital, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
• ⁵⁰ Department of Pediatrics, Show Chwan Memorial Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan.
• ⁵¹ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore; Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore; Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
• ⁵² Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore; Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore.
• ⁵³ Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
• ⁵⁴ Department of Microbiology, NIMS & R, NIMS University, Jaipur, India.
• ⁵⁵ Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, USA.
• ⁵⁶ Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
• ⁵⁷ Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA; Division of Public Health, Infectious Diseases, and Occupational Medicine, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
• ⁵⁸ Center for Research, Diagnosis and Reference, Institute of Tropical Medicine "Pedro Kourí", Havana, Cuba.
• ⁵⁹ Division of Microbiology, SydPath St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
• ⁶⁰ LabPlus, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand.