About the Authors

Marie Borggren

Contributed equally to this work with: Marie Borggren, Johanna Repits

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Johanna Repits

Contributed equally to this work with: Marie Borggren, Johanna Repits

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Jasminka Sterjovski

Affiliations Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health, Melbourne, Australia, Department of Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Hannes Uchtenhagen

Affiliation Center for Infectious Medicine (CIM), Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Melissa J. Churchill

Affiliations Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health, Melbourne, Australia, Department of Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Anders Karlsson

Affiliation Department of Infectious Medicine, South Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Jan Albert

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Adnane Achour

Affiliation Center for Infectious Medicine (CIM), Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Paul R. Gorry

Affiliations Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health, Melbourne, Australia, Department of Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

Eva Maria Fenyö

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Marianne Jansson

Marianne.Jansson@med.lu.se

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MB JR MJ. Performed the experiments: MB JR JS HU MJC. Analyzed the data: MB JR AA EMF MJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AK JA AA PRG. Wrote the paper: MB JR HU JA AA PRG EMF MJ. Responsible for clinical follow-up of patients: AK.