Standing on the shoulders of giants: heroes and heroic studies paving the way forward in clinical microbiology and infectious diseases

Affiliations

• ¹ Infectious Disease Service, Hospital del Mar, Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques (IMIM), Barcelona, Spain; CIBERINFEC ISCIII, CIBER de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
• ² Institute for Hygiene and Public Health, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
• ³ Center for Innovative Therapeutics and Diagnostics (citdx.org), Richmond, VA, USA; Departments of Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].