Erratum to: Arch Microbiol DOI 10.1007/s00203-012-0851-9

Unfortunately, the given and family names of the authors (except the fifth author) have been inadvertently interchanged in the original version. The correct names in the author group should read as given below:

Patrizia Messi ∙ Annalisa Bargellini ∙ Immacolata Anacarso ∙ Isabella Marchesi ∙ Simona de Niederhäusern ∙ Moreno Bondi