About the Authors

Andreas Bergmann

Affiliation Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, University Medicine Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Phillip Trefz

Affiliation Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, University Medicine Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Sina Fischer

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Pathogenesis, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (Federal Research Institute for Animal Health), Jena, Germany

Klaus Klepik

Affiliation Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, University Medicine Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Gudrun Walter

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Pathogenesis, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (Federal Research Institute for Animal Health), Jena, Germany

Markus Steffens

Affiliation Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, University Medicine Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Mario Ziller

Affiliation Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (Federal Research Institute for Animal Health), Greifswald, Germany, and Biomathematics Working Group,Insel Riems, Germany

Jochen K. Schubert

Affiliation Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, University Medicine Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Petra Reinhold

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Pathogenesis, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (Federal Research Institute for Animal Health), Jena, Germany

Heike Köhler

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Pathogenesis, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (Federal Research Institute for Animal Health), Jena, Germany

Wolfram Miekisch

wolfram.miekisch@uni-rostock.de

Affiliation Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, University Medicine Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PR WM HK JS. Performed the experiments: KK PT GW WM HK AB. Analyzed the data: PT AB GW SF HK WM PR KK MS MZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PR JS HK WM. Wrote the paper: AB PT JS SF MS MZ HK WM PR.