About the Authors

Leonie Dengler

Affiliations Department of Infection Genetics, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Nora Kühn

Affiliations Department of Infection Genetics, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Dai-Lun Shin

Affiliations Department of Infection Genetics, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Bastian Hatesuer

Affiliations Department of Infection Genetics, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Klaus Schughart

Contributed equally to this work with: Klaus Schughart, Esther Wilk

Klaus.Schughart@helmholtz-hzi.de

Affiliations Department of Infection Genetics, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Esther Wilk

Contributed equally to this work with: Klaus Schughart, Esther Wilk

Affiliations Department of Infection Genetics, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EW KS LD BH. Performed the experiments: LD NK BH DS. Analyzed the data: EW LD BH NK. Wrote the paper: LD KS EW.