1Department of Microbiology, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Winchester and Basingstoke, UK
2School of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
3B·R·A·H·M·S GmbH, Hennigsdorf, Germany
4Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany
5Center for Sepsis Control & Care (CSCC), Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany
6Division of General and Emergency Medicine, University Department of Medicine, Kantonsspital Aarau, Switzerland
7Medical Faculty of the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
8Department of Emergency Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
9Department of Internal Medicine, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden
10Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
11Emergency Department Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris and Sorbonne Universités GRC-14 BIOSFAST and INSERM UMR-S 1166, Paris, France
12Emergency Department, Policlinico Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
13Department of Medical Systems, Universita di Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
14Department of Emergency Medicine, Monaco Princess Grace Hospital, Monaco, France
15Department of Critical Care, Morton Plant Hospital, 300 Pinellas Street, Clearwater, FL 33756 USA
16Infectious Disease Unit, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden
17Department of Blood Sciences, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and Basingstoke, Winchester, UK
18Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Medical Center, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
19Emergency Department, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain
20Gibraltar Health Authority, St Bernard’s Hospital, Gibraltar, UK
21Department of Laboratory Medicine, Policlinico Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
22Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
23Rare and Imported Pathogen Laboratories, Public Health England, Porton Down, UK
24Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
25Department of Viroscience, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
26Department of Accident and Emergency, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and Basingstoke, Winchester, UK
27Emergency Department, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria (IdISSC), Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain