About the Authors
- Aylin Aydiner
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Contributed equally to this work with: Aylin Aydiner, Jessica Lüsebrink
Affiliation Institut für Pathologie, Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH, Köln, Germany
- Jessica Lüsebrink
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Contributed equally to this work with: Aylin Aydiner, Jessica Lüsebrink
Affiliation Institut für Pathologie, Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH, Köln, Germany
- Verena Schildgen
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Affiliation Institut für Pathologie, Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH, Köln, Germany
- Ingo Winterfeld
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Affiliation Institut für Hygiene, Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH, Köln, Germany
- Oliver Knüver
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Affiliation Institut für Pathologie, Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH, Köln, Germany
- Katja Schwarz
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Affiliation Institut für Hygiene, Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH, Köln, Germany
- Sabine Messler
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Affiliation Institut für Hygiene, Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH, Köln, Germany
- Oliver Schildgen
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* E-mail: schildgeno@kliniken-koeln.de (OS); mattnerf@kliniken-koeln.de (FM)
Affiliation Institut für Pathologie, Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH, Köln, Germany
- Frauke Mattner
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* E-mail: schildgeno@kliniken-koeln.de (OS); mattnerf@kliniken-koeln.de (FM)
Affiliation Institut für Hygiene, Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH, Köln, Germany
Competing Interests
Oliver Schildgen reports to having received a travel grant by Roche Diagnostics, Germany. No other competing interests apply to this manuscript. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: VS OS FM. Performed the experiments: AA JL OK KS IW. Analyzed the data: VS OS FM SM. Wrote the paper: JL AA OS.