About the Authors

Juan S. Ruiz-Moreno

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany

Lutz Hamann

Roles Resources

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Hygiene, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Javeed A. Shah

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United states of America, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Washington, United states of America

Annelies Verbon

Roles Data curation, Resources

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

Frank P. Mockenhaupt

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine and International Health, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany

Monika Puzianowska-Kuznicka

Roles Resources

Affiliations Department of Human Epigenetics, Mossakowski Medical Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, Department of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Medical Centre of Postgraduate Education, Warsaw, Poland

Jan Naujoks

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany

Leif E. Sander

Roles Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany, German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Germany

Martin Witzenrath

Roles Resources

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany, German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Germany, CAPNETZ STIFTUNG, Hannover, Germany

John C. Cambier

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Norbert Suttorp

Roles Resources

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany, German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Germany, CAPNETZ STIFTUNG, Hannover, Germany

Ralf R. Schumann

Roles Resources

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Hygiene, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Lei Jin

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Thomas R. Hawn

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United states of America

Bastian Opitz

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

bastian.opitz@charite.de

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany, German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Germany

CAPNETZ Study Group

Membership of the CAPNETZ Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.