About the Authors

Theresa Knoblach

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Benedikt Grandel

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Jana Seiler

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Michael Nevels

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Nevels, Christina Paulus

michael.nevels@klinik.uni-regensburg.de

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Christina Paulus

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Nevels, Christina Paulus

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TK MN CP. Performed the experiments: TK BG JS CP. Analyzed the data: TK BG JS MN CP. Wrote the paper: MN CP.