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Authors
Baum, Jonathan H. J. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9272-5863
Dörre, Achim https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9297-3675
Reichert, Felix https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3205-3513
Noll, Ines
Feig, Marcel https://orcid.org/0009-0002-5251-8410
Eckmanns, Tim https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4022-4944
Sandfort, Mirco https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7078-6537
Haller, Sebastian https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8242-711X
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Robert Koch-Institut
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Article History
Received: 29 August 2024
Accepted: 20 December 2024
First Online: 28 January 2025
Declarations
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: RKI collects and processes the routine surveillance data used in this study in accordance with § 7 and § 13 of the German Infection Protection Act (Infektionsschutzgesetz, IfSG). No additional ethics vote or data protection declaration is required. The Robert Koch Institute is a higher federal authority within the portfolio of the Federal Ministry of Health. According to the German Protection against Infection Act (paragraph 4) the Robert Koch Institute as the National Public Health Institute has the task to epidemiologically analyse the national data on notifiable infectious diseases and on notifiable detections of pathogens. This study was performed according to the aforementioned legal mandate of the Robert Koch Institute. In this context no ethical review is necessary.
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
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