About the Authors

Bartłomiej Dudek

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Institute of Genetics and Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland

Eva Krzyżewska

Affiliation Department of Immunology of Infectious Diseases, Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland

Katarzyna Kapczyńska

Affiliation Department of Immunology of Infectious Diseases, Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland

Jacek Rybka

Affiliation Department of Immunology of Infectious Diseases, Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland

Aleksandra Pawlak

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Institute of Genetics and Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland

Kamila Korzekwa

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Institute of Genetics and Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland, Dialab Laboratory, Wroclaw, Poland

Elżbieta Klausa

Affiliation Regional Centre of Transfusion Medicine and Blood Bank, Wroclaw, Poland

Gabriela Bugla-Płoskońska

gabriela.bugla-ploskonska@uwr.edu.pl

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Institute of Genetics and Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland

Competing Interests

KKo is affiliated with Dialab Laboratory which is a diagnostic laboratory that provided clinical bacterial strains used in experiments in the present work. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: BD JR GBP. Formal analysis: BD EK K. Kapczyńska JR GBP. Funding acquisition: BD. Investigation: BD EK K. Kapczyńska AP K. Korzekwa. Methodology: BD EK K. Kapczyńska AP K. Korzekwa EKl GBP. Project administration: BD JR GBP. Resources: JR K. Korzekwa EKl GBP. Supervision: BD JR GBP. Validation: BD K. Kapczyńska JR GBP. Visualization: BD EK K. Kapczyńska. Writing – original draft: BD EK K. Kapczyńska JR GBP. Writing – review & editing: BD EK K. Kapczyńska JR GBP.