About the Authors

Jasmin Schwab

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

Claudia Hammerschmidt

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

Dania Richter

Affiliation Abteilung Parasitologie, Institut für Pathologie, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Christine Skerka

Affiliation Department of Infection Biology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Jena, Germany

Franz-Rainer Matuschka

Affiliation Abteilung Parasitologie, Institut für Pathologie, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Reinhard Wallich

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Peter F. Zipfel

Affiliations Department of Infection Biology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Jena, Germany, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany

Peter Kraiczy

Kraiczy@em.uni-frankfurt.de

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PK. Performed the experiments: JS CH PK. Analyzed the data: JS CH PK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DR CS RW FRM PFZ. Wrote the paper: PK.