About the Authors

Hendrik-Jan Roest

hendrikjan.roest@wur.nl

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology and TSEs, Central Veterinary Institute, part of Wageningen University and Research Centre, Lelystad, The Netherlands

Betty van Gelderen

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology and TSEs, Central Veterinary Institute, part of Wageningen University and Research Centre, Lelystad, The Netherlands

Annemieke Dinkla

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology and TSEs, Central Veterinary Institute, part of Wageningen University and Research Centre, Lelystad, The Netherlands

Dimitrios Frangoulidis

Affiliation Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany

Fred van Zijderveld

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology and TSEs, Central Veterinary Institute, part of Wageningen University and Research Centre, Lelystad, The Netherlands

Johanna Rebel

Affiliation Department of Infection Biology, Central Veterinary Institute, part of Wageningen University and Research Centre, Lelystad, The Netherlands

Lucien van Keulen

Affiliation Department of Infection Biology, Central Veterinary Institute, part of Wageningen University and Research Centre, Lelystad, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HJR DF FvZ JR LvK. Performed the experiments: HJR BvG AD LvK. Analyzed the data: HJR BvG AD DF FvZ JR LvK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DF. Wrote the paper: HJR FvZ JR LvK.