About the Authors

Ines Ambite

Contributed equally to this work with: Ines Ambite, Manoj Puthia, Karoly Nagy

Affiliation Division of Microbiology, Immunology and Glycobiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Manoj Puthia

Contributed equally to this work with: Ines Ambite, Manoj Puthia, Karoly Nagy

Affiliation Division of Microbiology, Immunology and Glycobiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Karoly Nagy

Contributed equally to this work with: Ines Ambite, Manoj Puthia, Karoly Nagy

Affiliation Division of Microbiology, Immunology and Glycobiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Caterina Cafaro

Affiliation Division of Microbiology, Immunology and Glycobiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Aftab Nadeem

Affiliation Division of Microbiology, Immunology and Glycobiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Daniel S. C. Butler

Affiliation Division of Microbiology, Immunology and Glycobiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Gustav Rydström

Affiliation Division of Microbiology, Immunology and Glycobiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Nina A. Filenko

Affiliation Division of Microbiology, Immunology and Glycobiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Björn Wullt

Affiliation Division of Microbiology, Immunology and Glycobiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Thomas Miethke

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Medical Faculty of Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Catharina Svanborg

catharina.svanborg@med.lu.se

Affiliation Division of Microbiology, Immunology and Glycobiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IA MP KN CC AN GR CS. Performed the experiments: IA MP KN CC AN GR NAF DSCB. Analyzed the data: IA MP KN CC AN GR NAF CS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BW CS. Wrote the paper: IA MP KN CC GR DSCB TM CS. Performed bioinformatics: IA. Performed and analyzed animal experiments: MP DSCB. Performed the patient study: BW.