About the Authors

Yu Zhong

Affiliation Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Immunologie und Hygiene, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Florian Anderl

Affiliation Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Immunologie und Hygiene, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Tobias Kruse

Affiliation Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Immunologie und Hygiene, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Franziska Schindele

Affiliations Max von Pettenkofer-Institute for Hygiene and Medical Microbiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Munich, Munich, Germany

Elżbieta Katarzyna Jagusztyn-Krynicka

Affiliation Department of Bacterial Genetics, Institute of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

Wolfgang Fischer

Affiliation Max von Pettenkofer-Institute for Hygiene and Medical Microbiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany

Markus Gerhard

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Immunologie und Hygiene, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Munich, Munich, Germany

Raquel Mejías-Luque

raquel.mejias-luque@tum.de

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Immunologie und Hygiene, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Munich, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MG RML. Performed the experiments: YZ TK FS. Analyzed the data: YZ FA MG RML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EKJK WF. Wrote the paper: RML. Critical revision of the manuscript: YZ FA TK FS EKJK WF MG RML.