About the Authors

Stefanie Baur

Contributed equally to this work with: Stefanie Baur, Maren Rautenberg

Affiliation Interfacultary Institute for Microbiology and Infection Medicine Tübingen, Department of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Maren Rautenberg

Contributed equally to this work with: Stefanie Baur, Maren Rautenberg

Affiliation Interfacultary Institute for Microbiology and Infection Medicine Tübingen, Department of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Manuela Faulstich

Affiliation Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie, Biozentrum der Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Timo Grau

Affiliation Interfacultary Institute for Microbiology and Infection Medicine Tübingen, Department of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Yannik Severin

Affiliation Interfacultary Institute for Microbiology and Infection Medicine Tübingen, Department of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Clemens Unger

Affiliation Institute for Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Wolfgang H. Hoffmann

Affiliation Institute for Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Thomas Rudel

Affiliation Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie, Biozentrum der Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Ingo B. Autenrieth

Affiliations Interfacultary Institute for Microbiology and Infection Medicine Tübingen, Department of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Christopher Weidenmaier

christopher.weidenmaier@med.uni-tuebingen.de

Affiliations Interfacultary Institute for Microbiology and Infection Medicine Tübingen, Department of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CW SB MR IBA TR. Performed the experiments: SB MR MF CW TG YS CU. Analyzed the data: CW SB MR YS TG IBA WHH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WHH TR. Wrote the paper: CW SB MR.