About the Authors
- Dimitrios Frangoulidis
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* E-mail: DimitriosFrangoulidis@Bundeswehr.org
Affiliation Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany
- Wolf D. Splettstoesser
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Affiliation Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany
- Olfert Landt
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Affiliation TIB MOLBIOL GmbH, Berlin, Germany
- Jasmin Dehnhardt
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Affiliation TIB MOLBIOL GmbH, Berlin, Germany
- Klaus Henning
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Affiliation Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Wusterhausen, Germany
- Angela Hilbert
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Affiliation Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Wusterhausen, Germany
- Tilman Bauer
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Affiliation Freiburg, Germany
- Markus Antwerpen
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Affiliation Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany
- Hermann Meyer
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Affiliation Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany
- Mathias C. Walter
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Contributed equally to this work with: Mathias C. Walter, Johannes K.-M. Knobloch
Affiliations Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, Department of Genome-Oriented Bioinformatics, Center of Life and Food Science Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany
- Johannes K.-M. Knobloch
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Contributed equally to this work with: Mathias C. Walter, Johannes K.-M. Knobloch
Affiliation University of Lübeck, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Lübeck, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors have the following interests. Olfert Landt and Jasmin Dehnhardt are employed by TIB MOLBIOL GmbH who produced some of the PCRs in this study. Sequencing analysis has been done in part at GATC, Constance, Germany. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: DF. Performed the experiments: JD JK MA OL. Analyzed the data: DF HM JK MA MW OL WS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AH KH MW TB WS. Wrote the paper: DF JK MW OL.