About the Authors

Thomas Widmann

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Widmann, Urban Sester

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, University clinics of the Saarland, Homburg, Germany

Urban Sester

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Widmann, Urban Sester

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine IV, University clinics of the Saarland, Homburg, Germany

Barbara C. Gärtner

Affiliation Department of Virology, University clinics of the Saarland, Homburg, Germany

Jörg Schubert

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, University clinics of the Saarland, Homburg, Germany

Michael Pfreundschuh

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, University clinics of the Saarland, Homburg, Germany

Hans Köhler

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine IV, University clinics of the Saarland, Homburg, Germany

Martina Sester

martina.sester@uks.eu

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine IV, University clinics of the Saarland, Homburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TW US JS MP HK MS. Performed the experiments: TW BCG MS. Analyzed the data: TW US MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: US BCG. Wrote the paper: TW US JS MP HK MS.