About the Authors

Nicole Koslowski

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicole Koslowski, Martina Sombetzki

Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University Medical Center, Rostock, Germany

Martina Sombetzki

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicole Koslowski, Martina Sombetzki

Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University Medical Center, Rostock, Germany

Micha Loebermann

Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University Medical Center, Rostock, Germany

Robby Engelmann

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, University Medical Center, Rostock, Germany

Niels Grabow

Affiliation Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University Medical Center, Rostock, Germany

Christoph H. Österreicher

Affiliation Institute of Pharmacology Center for Physiology and Pharmacology Medical University, Vienna, Austria

Michael Trauner

Affiliation Hans Popper Laboratory of Molecular Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine III, Medical University, Vienna, Austria

Brigitte Mueller-Hilke

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, University Medical Center, Rostock, Germany

Emil C. Reisinger

reisinger@uni-rostock.de

Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University Medical Center, Rostock, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: NK MS ML MT ECR. Data curation: NK MS RE CHÖ. Formal analysis: NK MS NG BMH MT. Funding acquisition: NK MS ECR. Investigation: NK MS RE CHÖ. Methodology: NK MS RE ECR. Project administration: NK MS BMH ECR. Resources: NK MS RE CHÖ MT BMH ECR. Software: NK MS RE. Supervision: ECR. Validation: ECR. Visualization: NK MS ML ECR. Writing – original draft: NK MS ECR. Writing – review & editing: ML BMH.