About the Authors

Silvia K. Schmidt

silvia.schmidt@uni-duesseldorf.de

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Stephan Siepmann

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Katja Kuhlmann

Affiliation Medical Proteome Center, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Helmut E. Meyer

Affiliation Medical Proteome Center, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Sabine Metzger

Affiliation Biological-Medical Research Center, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany

Sabine Pudelko

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Margret Leineweber

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Walter Däubener

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SKS WD. Performed the experiments: SKS SS KK SM SP . Analyzed the data: SKS KK SM ML WD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KK HEM SM. Wrote the paper: SKS WD.