About the Authors

Alexandra Kleimann

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexandra Kleimann, Sermin Toto, Helge Frieling, Marcel Sieberer

kleimann.alexandra@mh-hannover.de

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Social Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Sermin Toto

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexandra Kleimann, Sermin Toto, Helge Frieling, Marcel Sieberer

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Social Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Christian K. Eberlein

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Social Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Jan T. Kielstein

Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Stefan Bleich

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Social Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Helge Frieling

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexandra Kleimann, Sermin Toto, Helge Frieling, Marcel Sieberer

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Social Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Marcel Sieberer

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexandra Kleimann, Sermin Toto, Helge Frieling, Marcel Sieberer

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Social Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS CKE ST. Performed the experiments: MS CKE ST AK. Analyzed the data: AK HF JTK. Wrote the paper: AK HF. Treatment of STEC-HUS patients: JTK. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: SB JTK CKE MS ST HF.