About the Authors

Enrico Georgi

Affiliation Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany

Mathias C. Walter

Affiliation Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany

Marie-Theres Pfalzgraf

Affiliation Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany

Bernd H. Northoff

Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

Lesca M. Holdt

Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

Holger C. Scholz

Affiliations Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany, National Consultant Laboratory for Brucella, Munich, Germany

Lothar Zoeller

Affiliations Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany, National Consultant Laboratory for Brucella, Munich, Germany

Sabine Zange

Contributed equally to this work with: Sabine Zange, Markus H. Antwerpen

Affiliations Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany, National Consultant Laboratory for Brucella, Munich, Germany

Markus H. Antwerpen

Contributed equally to this work with: Sabine Zange, Markus H. Antwerpen

markusantwerpen@bundeswehr.org

Affiliation Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MHA SZ LZ HCS. Data curation: SZ LZ HCS MTP. Formal analysis: MCW EG. Funding acquisition: LZ MHA. Investigation: BHN EG LMH. Project administration: MHA. Resources: SZ HCS LZ. Supervision: MHA. Validation: MHA EG MCW. Visualization: MCW EG. Writing – original draft: EG MCW MHA. Writing – review & editing: MHW EG MHA SZ HCS LZ.