About the Authors

Rebecca Körner

Contributed equally to this work with: Rebecca Körner, Klaus-Dieter Preuss

rebecca.koerner@uks.eu

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg/Saar, Germany

Klaus-Dieter Preuss

Contributed equally to this work with: Rebecca Körner, Klaus-Dieter Preuss

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I and José Carreras Centre for Immuno and Gene Therapy, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg/Saar, Germany

Natalie Fadle

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I and José Carreras Centre for Immuno and Gene Therapy, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg/Saar, Germany

Darius Madjidi

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg/Saar, Germany

Frank Neumann

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I and José Carreras Centre for Immuno and Gene Therapy, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg/Saar, Germany

Lennart Bergeler

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg/Saar, Germany

Stefan Gräber

Affiliation Institute for Medical Biometry, Epidemiology and Medical Informatics, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg/Saar, Germany

Cornelia S. L. Müller

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg/Saar, Germany

Frank Grünhage

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine II, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg/Saar, Germany

Michael Pfreundschuh

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I and José Carreras Centre for Immuno and Gene Therapy, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg/Saar, Germany

Frank Lammert

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine II, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg/Saar, Germany

Thomas Vogt

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg/Saar, Germany

Claudia Pföhler

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg/Saar, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Drafting of the manuscript: RK KDP CP MP FL TV. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: RK KDP CM CP FL MP TV. Conceived and designed the experiments: RK KDP CP FN NF DM. Performed the experiments: NF FN KDP DM LB. Analyzed the data: RK CP DM LB SG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NF RK CP FN KDP FG. Wrote the paper: RK KDP CP.