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Hays, John P.
Mitsakakis, Konstantinos
Luz, Saturnino
van Belkum, Alex
Becker, Karsten
van den Bruel, Ann
Harbarth, Stephan
Rex, John H.
Simonsen, Gunnar Skov
Werner, Guido
Di Gregori, Valentina
Lüdke, Gerd
van Staa, Tjeerd
Moran-Gilad, Jacob
Bachmann, Till T.
Funding for this research was provided by:
University Medical Center Rotterdam
Article History
Received: 18 January 2019
Accepted: 18 January 2019
First Online: 2 February 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: JPH, KM, SL and TTB are infectious disease academic/diagnostic innovators. AvB is a bioMérieux employee. BioMérieux develops and markets tests in the PoCT domain, but has had no influence on the current more personal account presented in this manuscript. VDG is a public health operator working as medical director, researcher and educator for public and private companies, and has no economic interests in this publication. KB is inventor of pending patents related to infectious disease diagnostics and received grants, honoraria and travel support from the EU/INTERREG, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs, the Netherlands Research Council for Applied and Technical Sciences as well as from Becton Dickinson, bioMérieux, Bruker Daltonik, Hain Lifescience, Roche Molecular Systems, ThermoFisher; outside the submitted work. JHR is Chief Medical Officer & Director, F2G, Ltd.; Non-Executive Director & Consultant, Adenium Biotech ApS; Operating Partner & Consultant, Advent Life Sciences; and Expert-in-Residence, Wellcome Trust; He sits on the scientific advisory boards of Macrolide Pharmaceuticals; Bugworks Research, Inc.; Basilea Pharmaceutica; Forge Therapeutics, Inc.; and Novo Holdings; He is a shareholder in AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals; F2G, Ltd.; Adenium Biotech ApS; Advent Life Sciences; Macrolide Pharmaceuticals; and Bugworks Research, Inc.; He has received consulting fees from Phico Therapeutics; ABAC Therapeutics; Polyphor, Ltd.; Heptares Therapeutics, Ltd.; Gangagen, Ltd.; Meiji Seika Pharma; Basilea Pharmaceutica International Ltd.; Allecra Therapeutics GmbH; Forge Therapeutics, Inc.; SinSa Labs; AtoxBio; Peptilogics; F. Hoffmann-LaRoche, Ltd.; and Novo Holdings. GL is a Curetis employee. Curetis develops and markets molecular tests for determination of pathogens and resistances but has had no influence on the current more personal account presented in this manuscript. AvdB, SH, GSS, GW, J M-G and TvS have no interests to declare.