About the Authors

Claudia U. Duerr

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Sebastian F. Zenk

Affiliation Institute for Microbiology, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

Cécilia Chassin

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Johanna Pott

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Dominique Gütle

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Michael Hensel

Affiliation Division of Infection Biology, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

Mathias W. Hornef

hornef.mathias@mh-hannover.de

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CUD MH MWH. Performed the experiments: CUD SFZ CC JP DG. Analyzed the data: CUD SFZ CC JP MH MWH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SFZ MH. Wrote the paper: CUD MH MWH.