About the Authors

Katja Kleinsteuber

Contributed equally to this work with: Katja Kleinsteuber, Kerrin Heesch

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Kerrin Heesch

Contributed equally to this work with: Katja Kleinsteuber, Kerrin Heesch

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Stefanie Schattling

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Malte Kohns

Affiliation Department of General Pediatrics, Neonatology, Pediatric Cardiology, University Children’s Hospital, Duesseldorf, Germany

Claudia Sander-Jülch

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Gerhard Walzl

Affiliation Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, MRC Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology, DST and NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical TB Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

Anneke Hesseling

Affiliation Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Desmond Tutu Tb Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

Ertan Mayatepek

Affiliation Department of General Pediatrics, Neonatology, Pediatric Cardiology, University Children’s Hospital, Duesseldorf, Germany

Bernhard Fleischer

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Florian M. Marx

Affiliation Department for Pediatric Pneumology and Immunology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany

Marc Jacobsen

marc.jacobsen@med.uni-duesseldorf.de

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, Department of General Pediatrics, Neonatology, Pediatric Cardiology, University Children’s Hospital, Duesseldorf, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KK KH GW AH EM FMMBF MJ. Performed the experiments: KK KH SS MK CSJ. Analyzed the data: KK KH SS MK FMM MJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EM BF. Wrote the paper: KK KH MK MJ.