About the Authors

Rebekka Kohlmann

rebekka.kohlmann@rub.de

Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, Institute of Medical Laboratory Diagnostics (IML) Bochum GmbH, Bochum, Germany

Sören G. Gatermann

Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, Institute of Medical Laboratory Diagnostics (IML) Bochum GmbH, Bochum, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RK SGG. Performed the experiments: RK SGG. Analyzed the data: RK SGG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RK SGG. Wrote the paper: RK SGG.