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### **5. Acknowledgment**

This work was partly funded by the Hygiene Fund of the Medical University of Graz. This work was performed in the TTIW-cooperation framework of Wetsus, centre of excellence for sustainable water technology (www.wetsus.nl). Wetsus is funded by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs. The authors like to thank the participants of the research theme "DNA based detection technologies" for the fruitful discussions and their financial support.
