About the Authors

Jan G. Christian

Contributed equally to this work with: Jan G. Christian, Julia Heymann

Affiliations Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Julia Heymann

Contributed equally to this work with: Jan G. Christian, Julia Heymann

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Dept. Molecular Biology, Berlin, Germany, Robert Koch-Institute, Junior Research Group 5, Berlin, Germany

Stefan A. Paschen

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Juliane Vier

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Linda Schauenburg

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Jan Rupp

Affiliations Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany, Medical Clinic III, UK-SH/Campus Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Thomas F. Meyer

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Dept. Molecular Biology, Berlin, Germany

Georg Häcker

georg.haecker@uniklinik-freiburg.de

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Dagmar Heuer

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Dept. Molecular Biology, Berlin, Germany, Robert Koch-Institute, Junior Research Group 5, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GH DH. Performed the experiments: JGC JH SAP JV LS JR. Analyzed the data: JGC JH SAP JV LS JR GH DH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TFM. Wrote the paper: TFM GH DH.