About the Authors

Imke H. E. Schmidt

Contributed equally to this work with: Imke H. E. Schmidt, Antje Bast

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany

Affiliation Friedrich Loeffler Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Claudia Gildhorn

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Friedrich Loeffler Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Martha A. L. Böning

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Friedrich Loeffler Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Vera A. Kulow

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Friedrich Loeffler Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Ivo Steinmetz

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

ivo.steinmetz@medunigraz.at

Affiliations Friedrich Loeffler Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany, Institute of Hygiene, Microbiology and Environmental Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Antje Bast

Contributed equally to this work with: Imke H. E. Schmidt, Antje Bast

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Institute of Medical Microbiology, Virology, and Hygiene, University, Medicine Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Affiliation Friedrich Loeffler Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.