About the Authors

Gabriele Margos

Contributed equally to this work with: Gabriele Margos, Alex Gofton

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

gabriele.margos@lgl.bayern.de

Affiliation Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority and National Reference Center for Borrelia, Oberschleissheim, Germany

Alex Gofton

Contributed equally to this work with: Gabriele Margos, Alex Gofton

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vector & Waterborne Pathogens Research Group, School of Veterinary & Life Sciences, Murdoch University, South St, Murdoch, Australia

Daniel Wibberg

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cebitec, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

Alexandra Dangel

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority and National Reference Center for Borrelia, Oberschleissheim, Germany

Durdica Marosevic

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority and National Reference Center for Borrelia, Oberschleissheim, Germany

Siew-May Loh

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vector & Waterborne Pathogens Research Group, School of Veterinary & Life Sciences, Murdoch University, South St, Murdoch, Australia

Charlotte Oskam

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vector & Waterborne Pathogens Research Group, School of Veterinary & Life Sciences, Murdoch University, South St, Murdoch, Australia

Volker Fingerle

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority and National Reference Center for Borrelia, Oberschleissheim, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.