About the Authors

Vesa Kirjavainen

Contributed equally to this work with: Vesa Kirjavainen, Hanna Jarva, Marta Biedzka-Sarek

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, Haartman Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Hanna Jarva

Contributed equally to this work with: Vesa Kirjavainen, Hanna Jarva, Marta Biedzka-Sarek

Affiliations Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, Haartman Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Helsinki University Central Hospital Laboratory Diagnostics, Helsinki, Finland

Marta Biedzka-Sarek

Contributed equally to this work with: Vesa Kirjavainen, Hanna Jarva, Marta Biedzka-Sarek

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, Haartman Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Anna M. Blom

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Malmö University Hospital, University of Lund, Malmö, Sweden

Mikael Skurnik

Affiliations Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, Haartman Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Helsinki University Central Hospital Laboratory Diagnostics, Helsinki, Finland

Seppo Meri

seppo.meri@helsinki.fi

Affiliations Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, Haartman Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Helsinki University Central Hospital Laboratory Diagnostics, Helsinki, Finland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VK HJ MBS MS SM. Performed the experiments: VK HJ MBS. Analyzed the data: VK HJ MBS MS SM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MBS AMB MS SM. Wrote the paper: VK HJ MBS MS SM.