About the Authors

Sibylle Junge

Contributed equally to this work with: Sibylle Junge, Dennis Görlich

Affiliation Clinic for Paediatric Pulmonology, Allergology and Neonatology, Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Dennis Görlich

Contributed equally to this work with: Sibylle Junge, Dennis Görlich

Affiliation Institute of Biostatistics and Clinical Research, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany

Martijn den Reijer

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Bärbel Wiedemann

Affiliation Institute of Medical Informatics and Biometrics, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Burkhard Tümmler

Affiliation Clinical Research Group, Clinic for Paediatric Pulmonology, Allergology and Neonatology, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Helmut Ellemunter

Affiliation CF-Center Innsbruck, Department of Child and Adolescent Health, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

Angelika Dübbers

Affiliation Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany

Peter Küster

Affiliation Department of Paediatrics, Clemenshospital Münster, Münster, Germany

Manfred Ballmann

Affiliation Ruhr University, Paediatric Clinic at St Josef Hospital, Bochum, Germany

Cordula Koerner-Rettberg

Affiliation Ruhr University, Paediatric Clinic at St Josef Hospital, Bochum, Germany

Jörg Große-Onnebrink

Affiliation Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany

Eberhardt Heuer

Affiliation Paediatricians “Kinderärztliche Ambulanz”, Hamburg, Germany

Wolfgang Sextro

Affiliation Paediatricians “Kinderärztliche Ambulanz”, Hamburg, Germany

Jochen G. Mainz

Affiliation CF Center, Department of Paediatrics, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany

Jutta Hammermann

Affiliation Department of Paediatrics, University Clinics Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Joachim Riethmüller

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University Clinics Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Ute Graepler-Mainka

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University Clinics Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Doris Staab

Affiliation Department of Paediatric Pulmonology and Immunology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Virchow Klinikum, Berlin, Germany

Bettina Wollschläger

Affiliation University Hospital Halle, Halle, Germany

Rüdiger Szczepanski

Affiliation Children’s Hospital Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

Antje Schuster

Affiliation Department of Paediatrics, University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Friedrich-Karl Tegtmeyer

Affiliation Park Schönefeld Clinics, Kassel, Germany

Sivagurunathan Sutharsan

Affiliation Ruhrlandklinik, Essen, Germany

Alexandra Wald

Affiliation University Clinics Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Jerzy-Roch Nofer

Affiliation Center for Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany

Willem van Wamel

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Karsten Becker

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany

Georg Peters

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany

Barbara C. Kahl

kahl@uni-muenster.de

Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: DG SJ BT WvW MdR BCK. Data curation: DG B Wiedemann BCK. Formal analysis: DG SJ BT WvW MdR BCK. Funding acquisition: BCK. Investigation: SJ DG MdR B Wiedemann BT HE AD PK MB CKR JGO EH WS JGM JH JR UGM DS B Wollschläger RS AS FKT SS AW JRN WvW KB GP BCK. Methodology: DG SJ BT WvW MdR BCK. Project administration: KB GP BCK. Resources: SJ BT HE AD PK MB CKR JGO EH WS JGM JH JR UGM DS B Wollschläger RS AS FKT SS AW JRN. Software: DG B Wiedemann BCK. Supervision: KB GP BCK. Validation: DG SJ BT WvW MdR BCK. Visualization: DG B Wiedemann WvW MdR BCK. Writing – original draft: DG SJ BT WvW MdR CKR BCK. Writing – review & editing: DG SJ BT WvW MdR KB GP BCK.