About the Authors

Mattias C. U. Gustafsson

Contributed equally to this work with: Mattias C. U. Gustafsson, Jonas Lannergård, O. Rickard Nilsson

Affiliations Medical Microbiology Section, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Medical Faculty, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Jonas Lannergård

Contributed equally to this work with: Mattias C. U. Gustafsson, Jonas Lannergård, O. Rickard Nilsson

Affiliation Medical Microbiology Section, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Medical Faculty, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

O. Rickard Nilsson

Contributed equally to this work with: Mattias C. U. Gustafsson, Jonas Lannergård, O. Rickard Nilsson

Affiliations Medical Microbiology Section, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Medical Faculty, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Bodil M. Kristensen

Affiliation Medical Microbiology Section, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Medical Faculty, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

John E. Olsen

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Claire L. Harris

Affiliation Institute of Infection and Immunity, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Rafael L. Ufret-Vincenty

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Margaretha Stålhammar-Carlemalm

Affiliation Medical Microbiology Section, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Medical Faculty, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Gunnar Lindahl

gunnar.lindahl@med.lu.se

Affiliations Medical Microbiology Section, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Medical Faculty, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MCUG JL ORN BMK MSC GL. Performed the experiments: MCUG JL ORN BMK MSC. Analyzed the data: MCUG JL ORN BMK JEO MSC GL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CLH RLUV. Wrote the paper: GL. Revised the text: GL MCUG JL.