About the Authors
- Alexander Mellmann
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Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander Mellmann, Dag Harmsen, Craig A. Cummings
Affiliation Institute of Hygiene, University Münster, Münster, Germany
- Dag Harmsen
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Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander Mellmann, Dag Harmsen, Craig A. Cummings
* E-mail: dharmsen@uni-muenster.de
Affiliation Department of Periodontology, University Münster, Münster, Germany
- Craig A. Cummings
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Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander Mellmann, Dag Harmsen, Craig A. Cummings
Affiliation Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America
- Emily B. Zentz
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Affiliation OpGen, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America
- Shana R. Leopold
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Affiliation Institute of Hygiene, University Münster, Münster, Germany
- Alain Rico
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Affiliation Life Technologies, Darmstadt, Germany
- Karola Prior
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Affiliation Department of Periodontology, University Münster, Münster, Germany
- Rafael Szczepanowski
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Affiliation Department of Periodontology, University Münster, Münster, Germany
- Yongmei Ji
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Affiliation Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America
- Wenlan Zhang
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Affiliation Institute of Hygiene, University Münster, Münster, Germany
- Stephen F. McLaughlin
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Affiliation Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America
- John K. Henkhaus
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Affiliation OpGen, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America
- Benjamin Leopold
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Affiliation Institute of Hygiene, University Münster, Münster, Germany
- Martina Bielaszewska
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Affiliation Institute of Hygiene, University Münster, Münster, Germany
- Rita Prager
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Affiliation Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode Branch, Wernigerode, Germany
- Pius M. Brzoska
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Affiliation Life Technologies, Foster City, California, United States of America
- Richard L. Moore
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Affiliation OpGen, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America
- Simone Guenther
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Affiliation Life Technologies, Darmstadt, Germany
- Jonathan M. Rothberg
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Affiliation Ion Torrent by Life Technologies, Guilford, Connecticut, United States of America
- Helge Karch
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Affiliation Institute of Hygiene, University Münster, Münster, Germany
Competing Interests
Dr. Cummings, Mr. Rico, Dr. Ji, Mr. McLaughlin, Dr. Broska, Dr. Guenther, and Dr. Rothberg are all employees of Life Technologies, Inc. Ms. Zentz, Mr. Henkhaus, and Dr. Moore are all employees of OpGen, Inc. Dr. Harmsen is a part-time employee of the RIDOM Bioinformatics company. While these authors are company employees, this does not alter their adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AM DH CAC SG JMR HK. Performed the Ion Torrent sequencing: DH KP RS WZ AR SG. Performed Optical Mapping: EBZ JKH RLM. Performed genome assembly: CAC YJ SFM PMB. Performed phylogenetic analysis: AM DH SL BL. Performed and analyzed plasmid profiling: MB RP. First draft of manuscript: AM DH CAC. Approved the final version of the manuscript: AM DH CAC EBZ SRL AR KP RS YJ WZ SFM JKH BL MB RP PMB RLM SG JMR HK.