About the Authors

Mateja Ozanic

Contributed equally to this work with: Mateja Ozanic, Valentina Marecic

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

Valentina Marecic

Contributed equally to this work with: Mateja Ozanic, Valentina Marecic

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

Masa Knezevic

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

Ina Kelava

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

Pavla Stojková

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology and Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Lena Lindgren

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology and Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Jeanette E. Bröms

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology and Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Anders Sjöstedt

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology and Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Yousef Abu Kwaik

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Center for Predictive Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Marina Santic

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

marina.santic@uniri.hr

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.