Footnotes

• Handling editor Robert Hirst

• X @LlorensPere

• Contributors CG-R, IE, MPV, IT, SL-H and AD collected the raw data. CG-R and IE reviewed the test results in the Microbiology Service. MPV, IT, SL-H and AD processed the samples in the Microbiology Service. PL, EM and JMR managed the samples in the Emergency Service and the Infectious Diseases Unit. JS-P, RS-A and JCR analysed the raw data and performed the statistical analysis. PG contributed to the statistical analyses during the review stage. EM, JMR, PL, JS-P and JCR planned the study. All authors participated in the writing and revision of the manuscript.

• Funding This study was financed by grant 2021-0452 from Alicante Institute for Health and Biomedical Research (ISABIAL) to MPV. MPV was supported with a PTA Grant (PTA2021-020215-I) funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by the ‘ESF Investing in your future’.

• Competing interests None declared.

• Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

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