About the Authors

Julia M. Riehm

Contributed equally to this work with: Julia M. Riehm, Gilles Vergnaud

juliariehm@bundeswehr.org

Affiliation Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany

Gilles Vergnaud

Contributed equally to this work with: Julia M. Riehm, Gilles Vergnaud

Affiliations Université of Paris-Sud, Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, Orsay, France, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Orsay, France, DGA/MRIS-Mission pour la Recherche et l'Innovation Scientifique, Bagneux, France

Daniel Kiefer

Affiliation Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany

Tserennorov Damdindorj

Affiliation National Center of Infectious Diseases with Natural Foci, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Otgonbaatar Dashdavaa

Affiliation National Center of Infectious Diseases with Natural Foci, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Tungalag Khurelsukh

Affiliation National Center of Infectious Diseases with Natural Foci, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Lothar Zöller

Affiliation Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany

Roman Wölfel

Affiliation Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany

Philippe Le Flèche

Affiliations Université of Paris-Sud, Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, Orsay, France, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Orsay, France, Division of Analytical Microbiology, Direction générale de L'armement (DGA)/Maîtrise NRBC, Vert le Petit, France

Holger C. Scholz

Affiliation Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JMR GV HCS. Performed the experiments: DK TK PL. Analyzed the data: JMR GV HCS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TD OD LZ RW. Wrote the paper: JMR GV DK HCS.