About the Authors

Eliška Vrbová

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

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Lenka Mikalová

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Linda Grillová

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Petra Pospíšilová

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Radim Strnadel

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Dermatovenerology, Faculty Hospital Brno, Brno, Czech Republic

Eliška Dastychová

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, St. Anne’s Hospital and Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Martina Kojanová

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

Miluše Kreidlová

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Institute of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Diagnostics of the General University Hospital and of The First Faculty of Medicine of Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

Daniela Vaňousová

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Dermatovenerology, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

Filip Rob

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Dermatovenerology, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

Přemysl Procházka

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Outpatient STI Clinic Medicentrum, Prague, Czech Republic

Alena Krchňáková

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, St. Anne’s Hospital and Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Vladimír Vašků

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, St. Anne’s Hospital and Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Vladana Woznicová

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, St. Anne’s Hospital and Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Monika Dvořáková Heroldová

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, St. Anne’s Hospital and Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Ivana Kuklová

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

Hana Zákoucká

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation National Reference Laboratory for Diagnostics of the Syphilis, National Institute for Public Health, Prague, Czech Republic

David Šmajs

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

dsmajs@med.muni.cz

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.