About the Authors
- Sibylle Junge
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Contributed equally to this work with: Sibylle Junge, Dennis Görlich
Affiliation Clinic for Paediatric Pulmonology, Allergology and Neonatology, Hannover, Hannover, Germany
- Dennis Görlich
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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
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Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Bärbel Wiedemann
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Affiliation Institute of Medical Informatics and Biometrics, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Burkhard Tümmler
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Affiliation Clinical Research Group, Clinic for Paediatric Pulmonology, Allergology and Neonatology, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany
- Helmut Ellemunter
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Affiliation CF-Center Innsbruck, Department of Child and Adolescent Health, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
- Angelika Dübbers
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Affiliation Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany
- Peter Küster
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Affiliation Department of Paediatrics, Clemenshospital Münster, Münster, Germany
- Manfred Ballmann
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Affiliation Ruhr University, Paediatric Clinic at St Josef Hospital, Bochum, Germany
- Cordula Koerner-Rettberg
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Affiliation Ruhr University, Paediatric Clinic at St Josef Hospital, Bochum, Germany
- Jörg Große-Onnebrink
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Affiliation Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany
- Eberhardt Heuer
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Affiliation Paediatricians “Kinderärztliche Ambulanz”, Hamburg, Germany
- Wolfgang Sextro
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Affiliation Paediatricians “Kinderärztliche Ambulanz”, Hamburg, Germany
- Jochen G. Mainz
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Affiliation CF Center, Department of Paediatrics, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany
- Jutta Hammermann
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Affiliation Department of Paediatrics, University Clinics Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Joachim Riethmüller
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University Clinics Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Ute Graepler-Mainka
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University Clinics Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Doris Staab
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Affiliation Department of Paediatric Pulmonology and Immunology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Virchow Klinikum, Berlin, Germany
- Bettina Wollschläger
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Affiliation University Hospital Halle, Halle, Germany
- Rüdiger Szczepanski
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Affiliation Children’s Hospital Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
- Antje Schuster
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Affiliation Department of Paediatrics, University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Friedrich-Karl Tegtmeyer
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Affiliation Park Schönefeld Clinics, Kassel, Germany
- Sivagurunathan Sutharsan
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Affiliation Ruhrlandklinik, Essen, Germany
- Alexandra Wald
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Affiliation University Clinics Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Jerzy-Roch Nofer
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Affiliation Center for Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany
- Willem van Wamel
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Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Karsten Becker
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Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany
- Georg Peters
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Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany
- Barbara C. Kahl
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* E-mail: 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.