About the Authors

Anita Nielsen

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Maria Månsson

Affiliation Center for Microbial Biotechnology, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

Martin S. Bojer

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Lone Gram

Affiliation Center for Microbial Biotechnology, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

Thomas O. Larsen

Affiliation Center for Microbial Biotechnology, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

Richard P. Novick

Affiliation Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Dorte Frees

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Hanne Frøkiær

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Hanne Ingmer

hi@sund.ku.dk

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Performed the experiments: AN MM MB. Analyzed the data: AN MM LG TOL RPN DF HF HI MB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TOL LG RPN. Wrote the paper: AN MM LG HI.