About the Authors

Fabian Schlott

Contributed equally to this work with: Fabian Schlott, Dominik Steubl

Affiliations Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Munich, Munich, Germany

Dominik Steubl

Contributed equally to this work with: Fabian Schlott, Dominik Steubl

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Dieter Hoffmann

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Technische Universität München/ Helmholtz Zentrum München, Munich, Germany

Edouard Matevossian

Affiliations German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Munich, Munich, Germany, Department of Surgery, Transplantationszentrum München Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Technical University München, Munich, Germany

Jens Lutz

Affiliation Section of Nephrology, I. Department of Medicine, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Uwe Heemann

Affiliations German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Munich, Munich, Germany, Department of Nephrology, Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Volker Hösel

Affiliation Technical University Munich, Chair of Biomathematics, Garching, Germany

Dirk H. Busch

Affiliations Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Munich, Munich, Germany

Lutz Renders

Affiliations German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Munich, Munich, Germany, Department of Nephrology, Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

Michael Neuenhahn

michael.neuenhahn@tum.de

Affiliations Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Munich, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: FS DS JL UH DHB LR MN. Formal analysis: FS VH. Funding acquisition: DHB MN. Investigation: FS DS DH. Methodology: FS DHB MN. Project administration: FS DS UH DHB LR MN. Resources: DS EM UH DHB LR MN. Supervision: UH DHB LR MN. Visualization: FS MN. Writing – original draft: FS DS MN.