About the Authors

Mogens Kilian

kilian@microbiology.au.dk

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Knud Poulsen

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Trinelise Blomqvist

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway

Leiv S. Håvarstein

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway

Malene Bek-Thomsen

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Hervé Tettelin

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Uffe B. S. Sørensen

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MK KP. Performed the experiments: MK KP TB LSH MBT HT UBS. Analyzed the data: MK KP TB LSH MBT HT UBS. Wrote the paper: MK KP LSH UBS.