About the Authors

Mona El Khatib

Contributed equally to this work with: Mona El Khatib, Przemyslaw Bozko

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, Medical University Hospital, Tuebingen, Germany

Przemyslaw Bozko

Contributed equally to this work with: Mona El Khatib, Przemyslaw Bozko

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, Medical University Hospital, Tuebingen, Germany

Vindhya Palagani

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, Medical University Hospital, Tuebingen, Germany

Nisar P. Malek

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, Medical University Hospital, Tuebingen, Germany

Ludwig Wilkens

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Nordstadt Krankenhaus, Hannover, Germany

Ruben R. Plentz

Ruben.Plentz@med.uni-tuebingen.de

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, Medical University Hospital, Tuebingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RRP. Performed the experiments: MEK PB VP. Analyzed the data: MEK PB VP LW RRP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LW. Wrote the paper: MEK PB VP LW RRP. Critical revision of the manuscript: MEK PB VP NPM LW RRP.