About the Authors

Johannes Karl-Mark Knobloch

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

j.knobloch@uke.de

Affiliations University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Institute for Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, Department of Hospital Hygiene, Hamburg, Germany, German Center for Infection Research, Partner site Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel, Germany

Sabrina Tofern

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Clinic for Medical Microbiology and Infectiology, Lübeck, Germany

Wladimir Kunz

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Clinic for Medical Microbiology and Infectiology, Lübeck, Germany

Sara Schütze

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Clinic for Medical Microbiology and Infectiology, Lübeck, Germany

Michael Riecke

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA, Lübeck, Germany

Werner Solbach

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations German Center for Infection Research, Partner site Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel, Germany, University Lübeck, Center for Infection and Inflammation Research (ZIEL), Lübeck, Germany

Thomas Wuske

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA, Lübeck, Germany

Competing Interests

MR and TW are employed by Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA who also provided funding and research materials for this study. JK joined an advisory board meeting of the Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA. ST, WK and SS were employed by Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA during internships and/or their thesis in the working group of JK. MR and TW are members of the Research Unit of the Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.