About the Authors

Hedvig E. Jakobsson

Affiliations Department of Bacteriology, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna, Sweden, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Cecilia Jernberg

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna, Sweden

Anders F. Andersson

Affiliations Department of Bacteriology, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna, Sweden, Limnology/Department of Ecology and Evolution, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Maria Sjölund-Karlsson

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna, Sweden

Janet K. Jansson

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, Ecology Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Lars Engstrand

lars.engstrand@smi.se

Affiliations Department of Bacteriology, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna, Sweden, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HJ CJ JKJ LE. Performed the experiments: HJ. Analyzed the data: HJ CJ AFA JKJ LE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LE. Wrote the paper: HJ CJ MSK JKJ LE.