About the Authors
- Stefan Monecke
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* E-mail: monecke@rocketmail.com
Affiliations Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Medizinische Fakultät “Carl Gustav Carus”, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany, Alere Technologies GmbH, Jena, Germany
- Elke Müller
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Affiliation Alere Technologies GmbH, Jena, Germany
- Olivia Simona Dorneanu
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Affiliation Microbiology Department, University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Grigore T. Popa” Iaşi, Iaşi, Romania
- Teodora Vremeră
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Affiliation Microbiology Department, University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Grigore T. Popa” Iaşi, Iaşi, Romania
- Ralf Ehricht
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Affiliation Alere Technologies GmbH, Jena, Germany
Competing Interests
E. Müller, S. Monecke and R. Ehricht are employees of Alere Technologies, the company that manufactures the microarrays also used in this study. This has no influence on study design, data collection and analysis, and this does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The other authors declare that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SM OSD TV RE. Performed the experiments: EM. Analyzed the data: SM RE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OSD TV. Wrote the paper: SM OSD TV RE.