About the Authors

Nikolaus Rieber

Nikolaus.Rieber@med.uni-muenchen.de (NR); liese_j@klinik.uni-wuerzburg.de (JL)

Affiliations University Children's Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany, University Children's Hospital, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tuebingen, Germany

Anna Graf

Affiliation University Children's Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Dominik Hartl

Affiliations University Children's Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany, University Children's Hospital, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tuebingen, Germany

Simon Urschel

Affiliation University Children's Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Bernd H. Belohradsky

Affiliation University Children's Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Johannes Liese

Nikolaus.Rieber@med.uni-muenchen.de (NR); liese_j@klinik.uni-wuerzburg.de (JL)

Affiliations University Children's Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany, University Children's Hospital, Julius-Maximilians-University, Wuerzburg, Germany

Competing Interests

This work was supported by an unrestricted grant from Sanofi Pasteur Inc., Swiftwater, PA, USA to the senior author Johannes Liese. There are no conflicts of interest relating to employment, consultancy, patents, products in development or marketed products. The author confirms that the unrestricted grant from Sanofi Pasteur Inc. does not alter his adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors. Johannes Liese has received travel grants and honoraria for speaking and participation at scientific meetings from Sanofi Pasteur Inc. The co-author Dominik Hartl is a member of the academic editorial board of PLoS ONE.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NR JL. Performed the experiments: NR AG. Analyzed the data: NR AG DH SU BHB JL. Wrote the paper: NR JL. Contributed to interpretation of data: DH BHB.