About the Authors

Christina Paulus

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

‡ These authors share first authorship of this work.

Affiliation Biomedical Sciences Research Complex, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom

Thomas Harwardt

† Deceased.

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

‡ These authors share first authorship of this work.

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Bernadette Walter

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Current address: Natural and Medical Sciences Institute at University of Tübingen, Reutlingen, Germany

Affiliation Biomedical Sciences Research Complex, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom

Andrea Marxreiter

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Current address: Clinic for Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Hospital Barmherzige Brüder Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Marion Zenger

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Current address: Clinic for Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Hospital Dritter Orden, Munich, Germany

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Edith Reuschel

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Clinic St. Hedwig at Hospital Barmherzige Brüder Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Michael M. Nevels

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

mmn3@st-andrews.ac.uk

Affiliation Biomedical Sciences Research Complex, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.