About the Authors

Joachim Roesler

roeslerj@rcs.urz.tu-dresden.de

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany

Florian Segerer

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital of Wuerzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Henner Morbach

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital of Wuerzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Stefan Kleinert

Affiliation Rheumatology/Clinical Immunology, University Hospital of Wuerzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Sebastian Thieme

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany

Angela Rösen-Wolff

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany

Johannes G. Liese

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital of Wuerzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JR ST AR FS JL. Performed the experiments: JR ST AR. Analyzed the data: JR FS HM SK AR JL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JR ST AR. Wrote the paper: JR AR JL. Patient's care: FS HM ST JL.