About the Authors

Annegret Hampel

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Medical School Hannover, 30625 Hanover, Germany

Claudia Huber

Affiliation Lehrstuhl für Biochemie, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany

Robert Geffers

Affiliation Research Group Genome Analytics, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany

Marina Spona-Friedl

Affiliation Lehrstuhl für Biochemie, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany

Wolfgang Eisenreich

Affiliation Lehrstuhl für Biochemie, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany

Franz-Christoph Bange

bange.franz@mh-hannover.de

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Medical School Hannover, 30625 Hanover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AH F-CB WE. Performed the experiments: AH CH MS-F. Analyzed the data: AH CH F-CB MS-F RG WE. Wrote the paper: AH F-CB WE.