SR conceived of the study and participated in its design, conduct and coordination.
Author contributions are as follows: SK conceived of and led the study, and participated in the design, conduct and coordination.
JM, NDW, MN, RL, MS, JJ and JK participated in its design, conduct and coordination and helped to draft the manuscript.
J.P.L. was involved in conducting and coordination of all aspects of the research, including testing feasibility, planning the experiments, processing of human tissues, validation of results, execution of most molecular and cellular experiments, data analysis, interpretation and preparation of the manuscript.
RNZ participated in study design and coordination, conducted and coordinated PFGE analysis and helped to draft the manuscript.
GW and SS conceived of the study and conducted its design and coordination.
RCM conceived of the study, participated in its design and coordination, conducted the Markov modeling analysis, helped conduct the statistical analysis, and helped to draft the manuscript.
AES conceived of the study, participated in design and coordination, conducted analyses, and drafted the manuscript; MEP conducted analyses and contributed to the manuscript; DJM and JAS reviewed and contributed to the manuscript; JSR participated in the design and coordination of the study and participated in the drafting and revision of the manuscript.
Networking provides proven opportunities for researchers to share their knowledge on the conduct, regulation, coordination and financing of health research – and of course on their findings, methodologies and syntheses [ 13, 14].
As Chanda-Kapata et al. [ 17] note: "Networking provides proven opportunities for researchers to share their knowledge on the conduct, regulation, coordination and financing of health research – and, of course, on their findings, methodologies and syntheses.
TM participated in its design and coordination, conducted sample collection and measured biomarkers.
