About the Authors

Franz Ratzinger

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Michel Dedeyan

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Matthias Rammerstorfer

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Thomas Perkmann

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Heinz Burgmann

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Athanasios Makristathis

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Georg Dorffner

Affiliation Section for Artificial Intelligence, Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics and Intelligent Systems, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Felix Lötsch

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Alexander Blacky

Affiliation Clinical Institute for Hospital Hygiene, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Michael Ramharter

michael.ramharter@meduniwien.ac.at

Affiliations Department of Medicine I, Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Institut für Tropenmedizin, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MD M. Rammerstorfer TP HB M. Ramharter. Performed the experiments: TP AB AM FL. Analyzed the data: FR GD MD HB M. Ramharter. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MD M. Rammerstorfer GD AB AM TP. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: FR M. Ramharter FL GD TP HB.