About the Authors

Alexandra Irrgang

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexandra Irrgang, Nicole Roschanski

Affiliation Department Biological Safety, National Reference Laboratory for Antimicrobial Resistance, Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany

Nicole Roschanski

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexandra Irrgang, Nicole Roschanski

Affiliation Institute for Animal Hygiene and Environmental Health, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Bernd-Alois Tenhagen

Affiliation Department Biological Safety, National Reference Laboratory for Antimicrobial Resistance, Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany

Mirjam Grobbel

Affiliation Department Biological Safety, National Reference Laboratory for Antimicrobial Resistance, Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany

Tanja Skladnikiewicz-Ziemer

Affiliation Department Biological Safety, National Reference Laboratory for Antimicrobial Resistance, Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany

Katharina Thomas

Affiliation Department Biological Safety, National Reference Laboratory for Antimicrobial Resistance, Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany

Uwe Roesler

Affiliation Institute for Animal Hygiene and Environmental Health, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Annemarie Käsbohrer

annemarie.kaesbohrer@bfr.bund.de

Affiliation Department Biological Safety, National Reference Laboratory for Antimicrobial Resistance, Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AI NR BAT MG UR AK. Performed the experiments: AI NR TS KT. Analyzed the data: AI NR BAT MG UR AK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BAT MG AK. Wrote the paper: AI NR BAT MG UR AK.