About the Authors

Irena T. Kondova

irenakon2001@yahoo.com

Affiliation University Clinic of Infectious Diseases and Febrile Conditions, Clinical Centre, Medical Faculty, Skopje, R. Macedonia

Zvonko Milenkovic

Affiliation University Clinic of Infectious Diseases and Febrile Conditions, Clinical Centre, Medical Faculty, Skopje, R. Macedonia

Sanja P. Marinkovic

Affiliation University Clinic of Infectious Diseases and Febrile Conditions, Clinical Centre, Medical Faculty, Skopje, R. Macedonia

Golubinka Bosevska

Affiliation Institute for Public Health, Skopje, R. Macedonia

Gordana Kuzmanovska

Affiliation Institute for Public Health, Skopje, R. Macedonia

Goran Kondov

Affiliation University Clinic for Thoracovascular Surgery, Clinical Centre, Medical Faculty, Skopje, R. Macedonia

Sonja Alabakovska

Affiliation Institute for Biochemistry, Medical Faculty, Skopje, R. Macedonia

Claude P. Muller

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Centre de Recherche Public de la Santé / Laboratoire National de Santé, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Judith M. Hübschen

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Centre de Recherche Public de la Santé / Laboratoire National de Santé, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: ITK GB GKu GKo SA JMH. Wrote the manuscript: ITK GB JMH. Conception and design of the work: ITK ZM JMH. Analysis and interpretation of data: ITK SPM GB GKu GKo SA JMH. Drafting the article: ITK GB JMH. Revising critically for important intellectual content and contributed to the article conclusions: CPM. Designed the software used in statistical analyses and provided technical support: GKo.