About the Authors

Weronika Gonciarz

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

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Biology, Institute of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Immunology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, Łodz, Poland

Agnieszka Krupa

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Biology, Institute of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Immunology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, Łodz, Poland

Krzysztof Hinc

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Bacteriology, Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG-MUG, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdansk, Poland

Michał Obuchowski

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Bacteriology, Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG-MUG, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdansk, Poland

Anthony P Moran

† Deceased.

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland

Adrian Gajewski

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Biology, Institute of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Immunology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, Łodz, Poland

Magdalena Chmiela

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

magdalena.chmiela@biol.uni.lodz.pl

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Biology, Institute of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Immunology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, Łodz, Poland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.