Correction to: European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (2018) 37:2171–2175

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10096-018-3357-9

In the originally published version of the article, the author contributions statement that appeared on page 2175 was incomplete.

The correct statement appears below:

Author contributions: SI collected data and assisted with manuscript preparation. HB, DM, RD and RN assisted with study design. GJ assisted with study design and data collection. SG performed data analysis. IS conceived and designed the study, obtained ethical approval, collected, analysed and interpreted data and prepared the manuscript. All authors reviewed the manuscript.