About the Authors

Julia Eitel

Contributed equally to this work with: Julia Eitel, Karolin Meixenberger, Claudia van Laak

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Karolin Meixenberger

Contributed equally to this work with: Julia Eitel, Karolin Meixenberger, Claudia van Laak

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Claudia van Laak

Contributed equally to this work with: Julia Eitel, Karolin Meixenberger, Claudia van Laak

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Christine Orlovski

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Andreas Hocke

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Bernd Schmeck

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Stefan Hippenstiel

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Philippe Dje N'Guessan

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Norbert Suttorp

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Bastian Opitz

bastian.opitz@charite.de

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JE NS BO. Performed the experiments: JE KM CL CO AH. Analyzed the data: JE KM BO CO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BS SH PN. Wrote the paper: JE BO.