Contributors
Johannes Karl-Mark Knobloch:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2591-6387
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole:
Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: VisualizationRole:
Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Sabrina Tofern: Role: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Validation
Wladimir Kunz: Role: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Validation
Sara Schütze: Role: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Validation
Michael Riecke: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Formal analysisRole: Writing – review & editing
Werner Solbach: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: Project administrationRole:
ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Thomas Wuske: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – original
draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Amitava Mukherjee: Role: Editor
Journal
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
14
November
2017
Publication date Collection: 2017
Volume: 12
Issue: 11
Electronic Location Identifier: e0187442
Affiliations
[1
]
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Institute for Medical Microbiology, Virology
and Hygiene, Department of Hospital Hygiene, Hamburg, Germany
[2
]
German Center for Infection Research, Partner site Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel, Germany
[3
]
University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Clinic for Medical Microbiology
and Infectiology, Lübeck, Germany
[4
]
Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA, Lübeck, Germany
[5
]
University Lübeck, Center for Infection and Inflammation Research (ZIEL), Lübeck,
Germany
Author notes
Competing Interests: MR and TW are employed by Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA who also provided funding and research
materials for this study. JK joined an advisory board meeting of the Drägerwerk AG
& Co. KGaA. ST, WK and SS were employed by Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA during internships
and/or their thesis in the working group of JK. MR and TW are members of the Research
Unit of the Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA. There are no patents, products in development
or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS
ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-17-16946
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0187442
PMC ID: 5685567
PubMed ID: 29135999
SO-VID: 43e9bde1-317d-4095-9d19-16b62e1c9ed1
Copyright © © 2017 Knobloch et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided
the original author and source are credited.
History
Date
received
: 3
May
2017
Date
accepted
: 19
October
2017
Page count
Figures: 3,
Tables: 0,
Pages: 11
Funding
Funded by: Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA
Award Recipient
:
Werner Solbach
The study was funded by the Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA. The funder provided support
in the form of salaries for authors [ST, WK, SS, MR, and TW] and by consumables. The
funding of the study by the Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA does not alter our adherence
to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. No financial interests of the
funder influenced the design of the newly developed touch transfer assay. No financial
interests of the funder influenced the data analysis. The decision to publish, and
the preparation of the manuscript was not influenced by financial interests of the
funder. The specific roles of these authors are articulated in the ‘author contributions’
section. There was no additional external funding received for this study and the
rest of the study was financed by the regular budget resources of the Clinic for Medical
Microbiology and Infectiology at the University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Campus
Lübeck.
Categories
Subject:
Research Article
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Pharmacology
Subject:
Drugs
Subject:
Antimicrobials
Subject:
Antibacterials
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Microbiology
Subject:
Microbial Control
Subject:
Antimicrobials
Subject:
Antibacterials
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Infectious Diseases
Subject:
Nosocomial Infections
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Pharmacology
Subject:
Drugs
Subject:
Antimicrobials
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Microbiology
Subject:
Microbial Control
Subject:
Antimicrobials
Subject:
Physical Sciences
Subject:
Materials Science
Subject:
Metallurgy
Subject:
Alloys
Subject:
Copper Alloys
Subject:
Physical Sciences
Subject:
Chemistry
Subject:
Chemical Elements
Subject:
Silver
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Anatomy
Subject:
Integumentary System
Subject:
Skin
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Anatomy
Subject:
Integumentary System
Subject:
Skin
Subject:
Physical Sciences
Subject:
Materials Science
Subject:
Materials by Structure
Subject:
Ceramics
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Microbiology
Subject:
Medical Microbiology
Subject:
Microbial Pathogens
Subject:
Bacterial Pathogens
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Subject:
Pathogens
Subject:
Microbial Pathogens
Subject:
Bacterial Pathogens
Custom metadata
