About the Authors

Sebastian Haller

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Juliane Spiegler

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Claudia Hemmelmann

Affiliation Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Helmut Küster

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Matthias Vochem

Affiliation Olgahospital Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

Jens Möller

Affiliation Children's Hospital Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, Germany

Dirk Müller

Affiliation Children's Hospital Kassel, Kassel, Germany

Angela Kribs

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Thomas Hoehn

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Christoph Härtel

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Egbert Herting

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Wolfgang Göpel

goepel@vlbw.de

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SH C. Hemmelmann C. Härtel EH WG. Performed the experiments: SH WG. Analyzed the data: SH C. Hemmelmann WG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SH JS HK MV JM DM AK TH C. Härtel EH WG. Wrote the paper: SH JS C. Hemmelmann C. Härtel WG.