About the Authors

Claudia Stein

Contributed equally to this work with: Claudia Stein, Oliwia Makarewicz

Claudia.Stein@med.uni-jena.de

Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Jena University Hospital, Erlanger Allee 101, D-07747, Jena, Germany

Oliwia Makarewicz

Contributed equally to this work with: Claudia Stein, Oliwia Makarewicz

Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Jena University Hospital, Erlanger Allee 101, D-07747, Jena, Germany

Jürgen A. Bohnert

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, Jena University Hospital, Erlanger Allee 101, D-07747, Jena, Germany

Yvonne Pfeifer

Affiliation Nosocomial Pathogens and Antibiotic Resistance, Robert Koch Institute, Burgstrasse 37, D-8855, Wernigerode, Germany

Miriam Kesselmeier

Affiliation Clinical Epidemiology, Integrated Research and Treatment Center, Center for Sepsis Control and Care (CSCC), Jena University Hospital, Erlanger Allee 101, D-07747, Jena, Germany

Stefan Hagel

Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Jena University Hospital, Erlanger Allee 101, D-07747, Jena, Germany

Mathias W. Pletz

Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Jena University Hospital, Erlanger Allee 101, D-07747, Jena, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CS OM MP. Performed the experiments: CS YP JB. Analyzed the data: CS OM JB YP MK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CS JB YP MK. Wrote the paper: CS OM JB YP MK SH MP.