About the Authors

Philipp Dalkmann

Contributed equally to this work with: Philipp Dalkmann, Melanie Broszat

philipp.dalkmann@uni-bonn.de

Affiliation Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation – Soil Science and Soil Ecology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Melanie Broszat

Contributed equally to this work with: Philipp Dalkmann, Melanie Broszat

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Faculty for Biology, Microbiology, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Christina Siebe

Affiliation Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México D.F., México

Elisha Willaschek

Affiliation Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation – Soil Science and Soil Ecology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Tuerkan Sakinc

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Johannes Huebner

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Wulf Amelung

Affiliation Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation – Soil Science and Soil Ecology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Elisabeth Grohmann

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Jan Siemens

Affiliation Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation – Soil Science and Soil Ecology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CS JH WA EG JS. Performed the experiments: PD MB EW TS. Analyzed the data: PD MB CS EW TS JH WA EG JS. Wrote the paper: PD MB CS EW TS JH WA EG JS.