About the Authors

Juliane Havlicek

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Alere Technologies GmbH, Jena, Germany

Eric Rivera-Milla

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Alere Technologies GmbH, Jena, Germany

Peter Slickers

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Alere Technologies GmbH, Jena, Germany

Sönke Andres

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Reference Center for Mycobacteria, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany

Silke Feuerriegel

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Molecular and Experimental Mycobacteriology, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany, German Center for Infection Research, Partner site Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel, Borstel, Germany

Stefan Niemann

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Molecular and Experimental Mycobacteriology, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany

Matthias Merker

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthias Merker, Ines Labugger

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

mmerker@fz-borstel.de

Affiliation Molecular and Experimental Mycobacteriology, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany

Ines Labugger

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthias Merker, Ines Labugger

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Alere Technologies GmbH, Jena, Germany

Competing Interests

JH, ERM, PS and IL are employees at Alere Technologies GmbH. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.