About the Authors

Nil Guler

nilvecay@yahoo.com

Affiliation Department of Hematology, School of Medicine, Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun, Turkey

Cafer Eroglu

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun, Turkey

Hava Yilmaz

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun, Turkey

Adil Karadag

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, School of Medicine, Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun, Turkey

Hasan Alacam

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun, Turkey

Mustafa Sunbul

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun, Turkey

Tom E. Fletcher

Affiliations Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun, Turkey, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool L3 5QA, United Kingdom

Hakan Leblebicioglu

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun, Turkey

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NG CE HY AK HA MS HL. Performed the experiments: NG CE HY AK HA. Analyzed the data: NG CE HY AK HA TF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NG CE HY AK HA MS TF. Wrote the paper: NG CE HY AK HA MSTF HL.