About the Authors

Andreas Dötsch

andreas.doetsch@helmholtz-hzi.de

Affiliation Chronic Pseudomonas Infections, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Denitsa Eckweiler

Affiliation Chronic Pseudomonas Infections, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Monika Schniederjans

Affiliation Chronic Pseudomonas Infections, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Ariane Zimmermann

Affiliation Chronic Pseudomonas Infections, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Vanessa Jensen

Affiliation Pathophysiology of Bacterial Biofilms, Twincore, Center for Clinical and Experimental Infection Research, joint venture of the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research and the Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Maren Scharfe

Affiliation Genome Analytics, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Robert Geffers

Affiliation Genome Analytics, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Susanne Häussler

Affiliations Chronic Pseudomonas Infections, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany, Pathophysiology of Bacterial Biofilms, Twincore, Center for Clinical and Experimental Infection Research, joint venture of the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research and the Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AD SH. Performed the experiments: AZ M. Schniederjans VJ. Analyzed the data: AD DE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: M. Scharfe RG. Wrote the paper: AD SH.