About the Authors

Jens T. Stieler

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Reinhild Prange

prange@uni-mainz.de

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JTS RP. Performed the experiments: JTS. Analyzed the data: JTS RP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JTS RP. Wrote the paper: RP.