About the Authors
- Christian Schwerk
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* E-mail: christian.schwerk@medma.uni-heidelberg.de
Affiliation Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
- Thalia Papandreou
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Affiliation Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
- Daniel Schuhmann
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Affiliation Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
- Laura Nickol
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Affiliation Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
- Julia Borkowski
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Affiliation Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
- Ulrike Steinmann
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Affiliation Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
- Natascha Quednau
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Affiliation Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
- Carolin Stump
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Affiliation Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
- Christel Weiss
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Affiliation Department of Statistics, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
- Jürgen Berger
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Affiliation Max Planck Institute of Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
- Hartwig Wolburg
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Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Heike Claus
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Affiliation Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
- Ulrich Vogel
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Affiliation Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
- Hiroshi Ishikawa
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Current address: Department of NDU Life Sciences, Nippon Dental University, School of Life Dentistry, Tokyo, Japan
Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
- Tobias Tenenbaum
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Contributed equally to this work with: Tobias Tenenbaum, Horst Schroten
Affiliation Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
- Horst Schroten
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Contributed equally to this work with: Tobias Tenenbaum, Horst Schroten
Affiliation Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: C. Schwerk TT HS. Performed the experiments: TP DS LN J. Borkowski US NQ C. Stump J. Berger HW. Analyzed the data: C. Schwerk TP DS LN J. Borkowski US NQ C. Stump CW J. Berger HW TT HS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HC UV HI. Wrote the paper: C. Schwerk TT HS.