About the Authors

Rusudan Okujava

Affiliation Focal Area Infection Biology, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Patrick Guye

Current address: Division of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Focal Area Infection Biology, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Yun-Yueh Lu

Affiliation Focal Area Infection Biology, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Claudia Mistl

Affiliation Focal Area Infection Biology, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Florine Polus

Current address: Novartis Pharma AG, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland

Affiliation Focal Area Infection Biology, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Muriel Vayssier-Taussat

Affiliation Unité Sous Contrat Bartonella, Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA), Maisons-Alfort, France

Cornelia Halin

Affiliation Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland

Antonius G. Rolink

Affiliation Department of Biomedicine (DBM), University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Christoph Dehio

christoph.dehio@unibas.ch

Affiliation Focal Area Infection Biology, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RO PG CD. Performed the experiments: RO PG YYL CM FP. Analyzed the data: RO PG YYL FP CD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MVT CH AGR. Wrote the paper: RO CD.