About the Authors

Anastasia Meshcheryakova

Contributed equally to this work with: Anastasia Meshcheryakova, Dietmar Tamandl

Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Center of Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Dietmar Tamandl

Contributed equally to this work with: Anastasia Meshcheryakova, Dietmar Tamandl

dietmar.tamandl@meduniwien.ac.at (DT); diana.mechtcheriakova@meduniwien.ac.at (DM)

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Erika Bajna

Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Center of Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Judith Stift

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Martina Mittlboeck

Affiliation Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics, and Intelligent Systems, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Martin Svoboda

Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Center of Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Denise Heiden

Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Center of Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Stefan Stremitzer

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Erika Jensen-Jarolim

Affiliations Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Center of Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Comparative Medicine, Messerli Research Institute of the Medical University of Vienna, Veterinary University of Vienna and University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Thomas Grünberger

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Michael Bergmann

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Diana Mechtcheriakova

dietmar.tamandl@meduniwien.ac.at (DT); diana.mechtcheriakova@meduniwien.ac.at (DM)

Affiliation Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Center of Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DM AM DT MB. Performed the experiments: AM EB DH DM. Analyzed the data: AM DT DM MB JS EB DH MS MM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DT MB DM EJJ TG JS SS MS MM. Wrote the paper: AM DM DT MM. Sample collection and maintaining patient database: TG DT JS SS MB.