About the Authors

Aylin Aydiner

Contributed equally to this work with: Aylin Aydiner, Jessica Lüsebrink

Affiliation Institut für Pathologie, Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH, Köln, Germany

Jessica Lüsebrink

Contributed equally to this work with: Aylin Aydiner, Jessica Lüsebrink

Affiliation Institut für Pathologie, Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH, Köln, Germany

Verena Schildgen

Affiliation Institut für Pathologie, Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH, Köln, Germany

Ingo Winterfeld

Affiliation Institut für Hygiene, Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH, Köln, Germany

Oliver Knüver

Affiliation Institut für Pathologie, Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH, Köln, Germany

Katja Schwarz

Affiliation Institut für Hygiene, Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH, Köln, Germany

Sabine Messler

Affiliation Institut für Hygiene, Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH, Köln, Germany

Oliver Schildgen

schildgeno@kliniken-koeln.de (OS); mattnerf@kliniken-koeln.de (FM)

Affiliation Institut für Pathologie, Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH, Köln, Germany

Frauke Mattner

schildgeno@kliniken-koeln.de (OS); mattnerf@kliniken-koeln.de (FM)

Affiliation Institut für Hygiene, Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH, Köln, Germany

Competing Interests

Oliver Schildgen reports to having received a travel grant by Roche Diagnostics, Germany. No other competing interests apply to this manuscript. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VS OS FM. Performed the experiments: AA JL OK KS IW. Analyzed the data: VS OS FM SM. Wrote the paper: JL AA OS.