About the Authors

Franziska Tomaschek

Contributed equally to this work with: Franziska Tomaschek, Paul G. Higgins

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Paul G. Higgins

Contributed equally to this work with: Franziska Tomaschek, Paul G. Higgins

Affiliations Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Cologne-Bonn, Cologne, Germany

Danuta Stefanik

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Hilmar Wisplinghoff

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Harald Seifert

harald.seifert@uni-koeln.de

Affiliations Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Cologne-Bonn, Cologne, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HS. Performed the experiments: FT PH DS. Analyzed the data: FT PH HS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HW. Wrote the paper: FT PH HS.