1 Directorate General for Disease Surveillance and Control, Ministry of Health, Muscat, Oman; European Sociaty for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Basel, Switzerland; Institute for Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Aarhus, Denmark. Electronic address: eskild.petersen@gmail.com.
2 Department of Medicine & Therapeutics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, China.
3 Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Section of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
4 National Institute for Communicable Diseases, A Division of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa.
5 International Society for Infectious Diseases, Boston, MA, USA; University of Massachusetts, Division of Infectious Diseases, Worcester, MA, USA.
6 International Society for Infectious Diseases, Boston, MA, USA.
7 Stanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China.
8 Biocontainment Treatment Unit, Biosafety for Research-Related Infectious Pathogens, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA.
9 Research Centre, King Saud Medical City, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
10 Indian Council of Medical Research, Department of Health Research, New Delhi, India.
11 Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
12 Fondation Congolaise pour la Recherche Médicale/Université Marien Ngouabi, Republic of Congo and Institute for Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Germany.
13 King Fahd Medical Research Center (KFMRC), Medical Laboratory Technology Department, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
14 Center for Clinical Microbiology, Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, United Kingdom.
15 The Royal Veterinary College, University of London, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.
16 National Institute for Infectious Diseases, Lazzaro Spallanzani, Rome, Italy.
17 Center for Clinical Microbiology, Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, and NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom.
18 Department of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Center, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands.