About the Authors

Johanna Klughammer

Affiliations CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Marcus Dittrich

Affiliations Department of Bioinformatics, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Institute of Human Genetics, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Jochen Blom

Affiliation Institute for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany

Vera Mitesser

Affiliation Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Ulrich Vogel

Affiliations Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Research Center for Infectious Diseases, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, German Reference Laboratory for Meningococci and Haemophilus influenzae, Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Matthias Frosch

Affiliations Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Research Center for Infectious Diseases, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, German Reference Laboratory for Meningococci and Haemophilus influenzae, Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Alexander Goesmann

Affiliation Institute for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany

Tobias Müller

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Christoph Schoen

cschoen@hygiene.uni-wuerzburg.de

Affiliations Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Research Center for Infectious Diseases, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CS. Data curation: JK MD JB. Formal analysis: JK MD JB TM CS. Funding acquisition: JK MF CS. Investigation: JK VM. Resources: UV MF AG. Writing – original draft: JK CS. Writing – review & editing: JK UV MF CS.