About the Authors

Jonna Idh

jonna.idh@liu.se

Affiliation Division of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Mekidim Mekonnen

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Addis Ababa University, Debre Zeit, Ethiopia, Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Ebba Abate

Affiliations Division of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Gondar University Hospital, Gondar, Ethiopia

Wassihun Wedajo

Affiliation Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Jim Werngren

Affiliation Unit of Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms, Department of Preparedness, Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control, Solna, Sweden

Kristian Ängeby

Affiliation Clinical Microbiology, MTC, Karolinska Institute, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Maria Lerm

Affiliation Division of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Daniel Elias

Affiliation Department of Cancer and Inflammation, Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

Tommy Sundqvist

Affiliation Division of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Abraham Aseffa

Affiliation Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Olle Stendahl

Affiliation Division of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Thomas Schön

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Department of Clinical Microbiology, Kalmar County Hospital, Kalmar, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JI MM JW KÃ, DE T. Sundqvist AA OS T. Schön. Performed the experiments: JI MM WW. Analyzed the data: JI MM ML T. Sundqvist OS T. Schön. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AA OS T. Schön. Wrote the paper: JI MM EA WW JW KÄ ML DE T. Sundqvist AA OS T. Schön.