About the Authors

Kristin Stieler

Affiliation Institute for Microbiology and Virology, University Medical Center Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Udo Schumacher

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Experimental Morphology, University Medical Center Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Andrea Kristina Horst

Affiliation Institute for Clinical Chemistry, University Medical Center Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Nicole Fischer

nfischer@uke.de

Affiliation Institute for Microbiology and Virology, University Medical Center Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KS NF. Performed the experiments: KS AH NF. Analyzed the data: NF KS AH US. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AH US. Wrote the paper: NF.