About the Authors

Eliane von Klitzing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Hygiene, Charité - University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Ira Ekmekciu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Hygiene, Charité - University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Anja A. Kühl

Affiliation Department of Medicine I for Gastroenterology, Infectious Diseases and Rheumatology / Research Center ImmunoSciences (RCIS), Charité – University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Stefan Bereswill

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Hygiene, Charité - University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Markus M. Heimesaat

markus.heimesaat@charite.de

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Hygiene, Charité - University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

SB and MMH serve as academic editors of this journal. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: EVK MMH. Data curation: EVK IE AAK SB MMH. Formal analysis: EVK IE AAK MMH. Funding acquisition: SB MMH. Investigation: EVK IE AAK SB MMH. Methodology: EVK AAK MMH. Project administration: EVK SB MMH. Resources: SB AAK MMH. Software: SB. Supervision: MMH. Validation: EVK AAK SB MMH. Visualization: EVK IE AAK MMH. Writing – original draft: EVK MMH. Writing – review & editing: EVK IE AAK SB MMH.