About the Authors

Andreas Mades

Contributed equally to this work with: Andreas Mades, Katherina Gotthardt

Affiliation Department of Medicine III, Hematology and Oncology, Johannes Gutenberg-University School of Medicine, Mainz, Germany

Katherina Gotthardt

Contributed equally to this work with: Andreas Mades, Katherina Gotthardt

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Karin Awe

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Jens Stieler

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Tatjana Döring

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Sabine Füser

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Reinhild Prange

prange@uni-mainz.de

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors declare that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM KG KA JS RP. Performed the experiments: AM KG KA JS TD SF. Analyzed the data: AM KG KA JS RP. Wrote the paper: RP.