About the Authors

Nora-Johanna Krüger

Affiliation Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Department of Biological Safety, National Reference Laboratory for Campylobacter, Berlin, Germany

Marie-Theres Knüver

Affiliation Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Department of Biological Safety, National Reference Laboratory for Campylobacter, Berlin, Germany

Anna Zawilak-Pawlik

Affiliation Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Department of Microbiology, Wroclaw, Poland

Bernd Appel

Affiliation Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Department of Biological Safety, National Reference Laboratory for Campylobacter, Berlin, Germany

Kerstin Stingl

kerstin.stingl@bfr.bund.de

Affiliation Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Department of Biological Safety, National Reference Laboratory for Campylobacter, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NJK KS. Performed the experiments: NJK MTK KS. Analyzed the data: NJK KS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AZP BA. Wrote the paper: NJK AZP KS.