About the Authors

Morten Alhede

Affiliation Institute for International Health, Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Kasper Nørskov Kragh

Affiliation Institute for International Health, Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Klaus Qvortrup

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Marie Allesen-Holm

Affiliation Institute for International Health, Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Maria van Gennip

Affiliation Institute for International Health, Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Louise D. Christensen

Affiliation Institute for International Health, Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Peter Østrup Jensen

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Anne K. Nielsen

Affiliation Institute for International Health, Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Matt Parsek

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Dan Wozniak

Affiliation Division Infectious Disease, Center for Microbial Interface Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Søren Molin

Affiliation Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

Tim Tolker-Nielsen

Affiliation Institute for International Health, Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Niels Høiby

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Michael Givskov

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Thomas Bjarnsholt

tbjarnsholt@sund.ku.dk

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Division Infectious Disease, Center for Microbial Interface Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MA TB MG MP KNK PØJ. Performed the experiments: MA KQ MA-H LDC MvG AKN TB KNK PØJ. Analyzed the data: MA MP DW TT-N NH MG TB SM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MA MG DW MP SM. Wrote the paper: MA TB.