About the Authors

Silvia K. Schmidt

Contributed equally to this work with: Silvia K. Schmidt, Sebastian Ebel

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

Sebastian Ebel

Contributed equally to this work with: Silvia K. Schmidt, Sebastian Ebel

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

Eric Keil

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

Claudia Woite

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

Joachim F. Ernst

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Mycology, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Anika E. Benzin

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Jan Rupp

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany, Medical Clinic III/UK-SH, Campus Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Walter Däubener

daeubene@uni-duesseldorf.de

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

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 JR WD. Performed the experiments: SKS SE CW AEB EK. Analyzed the data: SKS SE AEB JR WD EK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JFE JR. Wrote the paper: SKS WD JR JFE.