About the Authors
- Stefan Monecke
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* E-mail: monecke@rocketmail.com
Affiliation Faculty of Medicine “Carl Gustav Carus”, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Technical University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Hanna Kanig
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Affiliation Department for Applied Microbiology, Institute for Microbiology, Technical University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Wolfram Rudolph
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Affiliation Faculty of Medicine “Carl Gustav Carus”, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Technical University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Elke Müller
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Affiliation Alere Technologies GmbH, Jena, Germany
- Geoffrey Coombs
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Affiliation PathWest Laboratory Medicine-WA, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, West Australia, Australia
- Helmut Hotzel
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Affiliation Friedrich-Löffler-Institute, Institute of Bacterial Infections and Zoonoses, Jena, Germany
- Peter Slickers
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Affiliation Alere Technologies GmbH, Jena, Germany
- Ralf Ehricht
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Affiliation Alere Technologies GmbH, Jena, Germany
Competing Interests
R. Ehricht and P. Slickers are employees of Alere Technologies GmbH. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SM GC RE. Performed the experiments: HK WR EM HH. Analyzed the data: SM PS RE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GC. Wrote the paper: SM GC RE.