About the Authors

Aline Dupont

adupont@ukaachen.de (AD); mhornef@ukaachen.de (MWH)

Affiliations Institute for Medical Microbiology, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany, Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Felix Sommer

Current address: Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Affiliation The Wallenberg Laboratory, Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Kaiyi Zhang

Affiliations Institute for Medical Microbiology, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany, Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Urska Repnik

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Marijana Basic

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

André Bleich

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

Mark Kühnel

Affiliation Institute for Functional and Applied Anatomy, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Fredrik Bäckhed

Affiliation The Wallenberg Laboratory, Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Yael Litvak

Affiliation Department for Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Institute of Medical Research Israel-Canada, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Marcus Fulde

Current address: Centre for Infection Medicine, Institute of Microbiology and Epizootics, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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

Ilan Rosenshine

Affiliation Department for Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Institute of Medical Research Israel-Canada, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Mathias W. Hornef

adupont@ukaachen.de (AD); mhornef@ukaachen.de (MWH)

Affiliations Institute for Medical Microbiology, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany, Institute of 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: AD YL MF IR MWH. Performed the experiments: AD FS KZ UR MB MK. Analyzed the data: AD FS UR MK FB MWH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AB. Wrote the paper: AD IR MWH.