About the Authors

Thommie Karlsson

Affiliation Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden

Anastasia Bolshakova

Affiliation Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden

Marco A. O. Magalhães

Affiliation Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Vesa M. Loitto

Affiliation Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden

Karl-Eric Magnusson

karl-eric.magnusson@liu.se

Affiliation Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TK AB MAOM VML KEM. Performed the experiments: TK AB VML KEM. Analyzed the data: TK AB VML MAOM KEM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TK KEM. Wrote the paper: TK AB VML MAOM KEM.