About the Authors

Walid Mohamed

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Shneh Sethi

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Svetlin Tchatalbachev

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Ayub Darji

Affiliations Institute for Medical Microbiology, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Trinad Chakraborty

trinad.chakraborty@mikrobio.med.uni-giessen.de

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WM ST AD TC. Performed the experiments: WM ST. Analyzed the data: WM SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WM SS. Wrote the paper: WM SS ST TC. Collected mice blood samples: WM AD.