About the Authors

Sarath K. Kalapala

Affiliation Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Sven N. Hobbie

Affiliations Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), Centre for Life Sciences, Singapore, Singapore

Erik C. Böttger

Affiliation Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Dmitry Shcherbakov

dscherbakov@imm.uzh.ch

Affiliation Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ECB. Performed the experiments: SKK SNH DS. Analyzed the data: SKK SNH ECB DS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DS. Wrote the paper: SKK ECB DS.