About the Authors

Ines Ambite

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

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

Daniel S. C. Butler

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Christoph Stork

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Institute of Hygiene, University of Münster, Mendelstr, Münster, Germany

Jenny Grönberg-Hernández

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration

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

Bela Köves

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

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

Jaroslaw Zdziarski

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Molecular Biology of Infectious Diseases, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Jerome Pinkner

Roles Methodology

Affiliations Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Center for Women's Infectious Disease Research (CWIDR), Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Scott J. Hultgren

Roles Methodology

Affiliations Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Center for Women's Infectious Disease Research (CWIDR), Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Ulrich Dobrindt

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

Affiliations Institute of Hygiene, University of Münster, Mendelstr, Münster, Germany, Institute for Molecular Biology of Infectious Diseases, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Björn Wullt

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Catharina Svanborg

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

catharina.svanborg@med.lu.se

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

Competing Interests

A patent regarding therapeutic use of IRF-7 antagonists has been filed. The scientists are shareholders in SelectImmune Pharma AB, a biotech company that holds patents relevant for UTI therapy. This study has not received financial support from SelectImmune Pharma AB or other commercial sources. The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.