About the Authors

Heleen Van Acker

Affiliation Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

Andrea Sass

Affiliation Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

Silvia Bazzini

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie “Lazzaro Spallanzani”, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Karen De Roy

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbial Ecology and Technology (LabMET), Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

Claudia Udine

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie “Lazzaro Spallanzani”, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Thomas Messiaen

Affiliation Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

Giovanna Riccardi

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie “Lazzaro Spallanzani”, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Nico Boon

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbial Ecology and Technology (LabMET), Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

Hans J. Nelis

Affiliation Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

Eshwar Mahenthiralingam

Affiliation Organisms and Environment Division Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Tom Coenye

Tom.Coenye@UGent.be

Affiliation Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Contributed to writing the paper: AS NB KDR EM. Conceived and designed the experiments: TC HVA HN EM NB. Performed the experiments: HVA AS TM KDR SB CU. Analyzed the data: HVA TC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EM AS KDR NB GR. Wrote the paper: HVA HN GR TC.