About the Authors

Peter Bergman

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden

Susanne Sperneder

Affiliation ASIH Stockholm Södra, Långbro Park, Palliative Home Care and Hospice Ward, Bergtallsvägen, Älvsjö, Sweden

Jonas Höijer

Affiliation Institute of Environmental Medicine, Unit of Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Jenny Bergqvist

Affiliations ASIH Stockholm Södra, Långbro Park, Palliative Home Care and Hospice Ward, Bergtallsvägen, Älvsjö, Sweden, Department of Oncology/Pathology, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholms Sjukhem, Unit for Palliative Care, Stockholm, Sweden

Linda Björkhem-Bergman

linda.bjorkhem-bergman@ki.se

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden, ASIH Stockholm Södra, Långbro Park, Palliative Home Care and Hospice Ward, Bergtallsvägen, Älvsjö, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PB LBB. Performed the experiments: PB SS JB LBB. Analyzed the data: PB JH LBB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JH. Wrote the paper: PB SS JH JB LBB.