About the Authors

Tobias Geiger

Affiliation Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Patrice Francois

Affiliation Genomic Research Laboratory, Infectious Diseases Service, Geneva University Hospitals and the University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Manuel Liebeke

Current address: Department of Surgery and Cancer, Biomolecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Affiliation Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Martin Fraunholz

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Christiane Goerke

Affiliation Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Bernhard Krismer

Affiliation Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Jacques Schrenzel

Affiliation Genomic Research Laboratory, Infectious Diseases Service, Geneva University Hospitals and the University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Michael Lalk

Affiliation Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Christiane Wolz

christiane.wolz@med.uni-tuebingen.de

Affiliation Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: T. Geiger, C. Goerke, C. Wolz. Performed the experiments: T. Geiger, P. Francois, M. Liebeke. Analyzed the data: T. Geiger, P. Francois, M. Liebeke. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: T. Geiger, P. Francois, M. Liebeke, M. Fraunholz, B. Krismer, J. Schrenzel, M. Lalk. Wrote the paper: T. Geiger, C. Wolz.