About the Authors

Natalia Marek-Trzonkowska

natalia.marek@gumed.edu.pl

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunoregulation and Cellular Therapies, Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland

Anna Kwieczyńska

Affiliation Department of Clinical Immunology and Transplantology, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland

Magdalena Reiwer-Gostomska

Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland

Tomasz Koliński

Affiliations Laboratory of Immunoregulation and Cellular Therapies, Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland, Department of Clinical Immunology and Transplantology, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland

Andrzej Molisz

Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland

Janusz Siebert

Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NMT JS. Performed the experiments: NMT AK TK. Analyzed the data: NMT AK AM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NMT MRG JS. Wrote the paper: NMT. Clinical assessment of the patients and clinical data acquisition: MRG.