About the Authors

Gopala Nishanth

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

Martina Deckert

Affiliation Department of Neuropathology, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Katharina Wex

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

Ramin Massoumi

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

Katrin Schweitzer

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Internal Medicine, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

Michael Naumann

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Internal Medicine, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

Dirk Schlüter

dirk.schlueter@med.ovgu.de

Affiliations Institute of Medical Microbiology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MN DS. Performed the experiments: GN MD KW. Analyzed the data: GN MD KW MN DS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RM KS MN. Wrote the paper: GN DS.