About the Authors
- Bartłomiej Dudek
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Institute of Genetics and Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland
- Eva Krzyżewska
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Affiliation Department of Immunology of Infectious Diseases, Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland
- Katarzyna Kapczyńska
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Affiliation Department of Immunology of Infectious Diseases, Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland
- Jacek Rybka
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Affiliation Department of Immunology of Infectious Diseases, Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland
- Aleksandra Pawlak
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Institute of Genetics and Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland
- Kamila Korzekwa
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Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Institute of Genetics and Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland, Dialab Laboratory, Wroclaw, Poland
- Elżbieta Klausa
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Affiliation Regional Centre of Transfusion Medicine and Blood Bank, Wroclaw, Poland
- Gabriela Bugla-Płoskońska
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* E-mail: 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.