About the Authors

Franz Ratzinger

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Department of Medicine I, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Harald Bruckschwaiger

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Brüder, Vienna, Austria

Martin Wischenbart

Affiliation Information Systems Group, Institute of Bioinformatics, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria,

Bernhard Parschalk

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

Delmiro Fernandez-Reyes

Affiliation Division of Parasitology, National Institute for Medical Research, London, United Kingdom

Heimo Lagler

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

Alexandra Indra

Affiliation Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Vienna, Austria

Wolfgang Graninger

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

Stefan Winkler

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

Sanjeev Krishna

Affiliation Centre for Infection, St. George’s University of London, London, United Kingdom

Michael Ramharter

michael.ramharter@meduniwien.ac.at

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Department of Medicine I, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Institute for Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FR HB WG SW SK MR. Performed the experiments: MW BP DFR HL AI MR. Analyzed the data: FR HB MW DFR MR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FR HB MW DFR MR. Wrote the paper: FR HB MW BP DFR HL AI WG SW SK MR.