About the Authors

Selma Tobudic

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Veronika Plunger

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Gere Sunder-Plassmann

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Markus Riegersperger

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Heinz Burgmann

heinz. burgmann@meduniwien.ac.at

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ST VP GSP MR HB. Performed the experiments: ST VP HB. Analyzed the data: ST HB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ST HB. Wrote the paper: ST HB.