About the Authors

Philipp Warnke

philipp.warnke@med.uni-rostock.de

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, Virology, and Hygiene, University Medicine Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Annette Devide

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, Virology, and Hygiene, University Medicine Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Mirjam Weise

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, Virology, and Hygiene, University Medicine Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Hagen Frickmann

Affiliations Institute of Medical Microbiology, Virology, and Hygiene, University Medicine Rostock, Rostock, Germany, Department of Tropical Medicine at the Bernhard Nocht Institute, German Armed Forces Hospital of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Norbert Georg Schwarz

Affiliation Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Holger Schäffler

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Endocrinology, University Medicine Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Peter Ottl

Affiliation Department of Prosthodontics and Material Sciences, University Medicine Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Andreas Podbielski

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, Virology, and Hygiene, University Medicine Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: PW AP. Data curation: PW AD MW HF NGS HS PO AP. Formal analysis: PW NGS AP. Investigation: PW AD MW HF HS PO AP. Methodology: PW HF PO AP. Project administration: PW AP. Resources: PW AP. Supervision: PW AP. Validation: PW AD MW HF NGS HS PO AP. Visualization: PW AP. Writing – original draft: PW AP. Writing – review & editing: PW AD MW HF NGS HS PO AP.