2. Patient preparation

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
• ² HUSLAB, HUS Diagnostic Center, Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland.
• ³ Department of Clinical Microbiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, DK-8200 Aarhus N, Denmark.
• ⁴ University Department of Laboratory Medicine, ASST Brianza, Pio XI Hospital, Desio, I-20871 Vimercate, MB, Italy.
• ⁵ Service de Biologie Médicale, Hôpital d'Instruction des Armées Bégin, F-94160 Saint-Mandé, France.
• ⁶ Department of Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Ghent, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium.
• ⁷ Department of Microbiology, CHU Rouen, University of Rouen Normandie, INSERM, DYNAMICURE UMR 1311, F-76000 Rouen, France.
• ⁸ Synlab MVZ, Augsburg and Dachau, D-85221 Dachau, Germany.
• ⁹ Max von Pettenkofer Institute of Hygiene and Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig Maximilian University, D-81337 Munich, Germany.