About the Authors
- Alexander Swidsinski
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Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander Swidsinski, Hans Verstraelen
Affiliation Charité Hospital, CCM, Laboratory for Molecular Genetics, Polymicrobial Infections and Bacterial Biofilms and Department of Medicine, Gastroenterology, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Hans Verstraelen
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Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander Swidsinski, Hans Verstraelen
* E-mail: hans.verstraelen@ugent.be
Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Vera Loening-Baucke
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Affiliation Charité Hospital, CCM, Laboratory for Molecular Genetics, Polymicrobial Infections and Bacterial Biofilms and Department of Medicine, Gastroenterology, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Sonja Swidsinski
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Labor Berlin, Neukölln, Berlin, Germany
- Werner Mendling
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Affiliation German Centre for Infections in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Wuppertal, Germany
- Zaher Halwani
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Affiliation DRK Kliniken Berlin Westend, Klinik für Gynäkologie und Geburtshilfe, Berlin, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AS HV VLB SS WM ZH. Performed the experiments: AS VLB WM ZH. Analyzed the data: HV AS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HV AS. Wrote the paper: HV AS. Provided important intellectual content: WM SS VLB ZH.