About the Authors

Eva Pastille

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Annika Frede

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Henry J. McSorley

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Centre for Inflammation Research, Queen's Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Jessica Gräb

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Alexandra Adamczyk

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Sebastian Kollenda

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Institute for Inorganic Chemistry and Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen (CeNIDE), University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany

Wiebke Hansen

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Matthias Epple

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Institute for Inorganic Chemistry and Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen (CeNIDE), University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany

Jan Buer

Roles Resources

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Rick M. Maizels

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Robert Klopfleisch

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Institute of Veterinary Pathology, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Astrid M. Westendorf

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

astrid.westendorf@uk-essen.de

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.