About the Authors

Johanna Pott

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

Silvia Stockinger

Affiliations Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Veterinary University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Natalia Torow

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

Anna Smoczek

Affiliation Laboratory for Animal Science, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Cornelia Lindner

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Gerald McInerney

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Fredrik Bäckhed

Affiliation Sahlgrenska Center for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research/Wallenberg Laboratory, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Ulrich Baumann

Affiliation Clinic for Paediatric, Kidney-, Liver and Metabolic Diseases, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Oliver Pabst

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

André Bleich

Affiliation Laboratory for Animal Science, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, 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: JP SS MWH OP AB. Performed the experiments: JP AS NT. Analyzed the data: JP SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CL GM FB UB. Wrote the paper: JP MWH.