About the Authors
- Christian Eitzinger
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Affiliation Department of Hygiene, Microbiology and Social Medicine, Division of Hygiene and Medical Microbiology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
- Silvia Ehrlenbach
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Affiliation Department of Hygiene, Microbiology and Social Medicine, Division of Hygiene and Medical Microbiology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
- Herbert Lindner
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Affiliation Division of Clinical Biochemistry, Biocenter, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
- Leopold Kremser
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Affiliation Division of Clinical Biochemistry, Biocenter, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
- Waldemar Gottardi
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Affiliation Department of Hygiene, Microbiology and Social Medicine, Division of Hygiene and Medical Microbiology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
- Dmitri Debabov
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Affiliation NovaBay Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Emeryville, California, United States of America
- Mark Anderson
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Affiliation NovaBay Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Emeryville, California, United States of America
- Markus Nagl
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Contributed equally to this work with: Markus Nagl, Dorothea Orth
* E-mail: m.nagl@i-med.ac.at
Affiliation Department of Hygiene, Microbiology and Social Medicine, Division of Hygiene and Medical Microbiology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
- Dorothea Orth
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Contributed equally to this work with: Markus Nagl, Dorothea Orth
Affiliation Department of Hygiene, Microbiology and Social Medicine, Division of Hygiene and Medical Microbiology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
Competing Interests
Dmitri Debabov and Mark Anderson are employed by and Markus Nagl was a consultant for NovaBay Pharmaceuticals, Inc., the funder of this study. In this study, pure NVC-612 (molecular weight 209.63 g/mol) and NVC-422 (molecular weight 244.07 g/mol) were from NovaBay Pharmaceuticals Inc. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: CE SE HL WG DD MA MN DO. Performed the experiments: CE SE LK. Analyzed the data: CE HL LK DD MN DO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HL MN DO. Wrote the paper: CE SE MN DO. Critically revised the data: CE SE HL LK WG DD MA MN DO. Critically revised the manuscript: CE SE HL LK WG DD MA MN DO. Final approval of the manuscript: CE SE HL LK WG DD MA MN DO.