About the Authors
- Maciej Wilk
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Contributed equally to this work with: Maciej Wilk, Roland Hessler
Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Clinic for Exotic Pets, Reptiles, Pet and Feral Birds, University of Veterinary Medicine, Foundation, Hannover, Germany
- Roland Hessler
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Contributed equally to this work with: Maciej Wilk, Roland Hessler
Affiliation MED-EL GmbH, Innsbruck, Austria
- Kenneth Mugridge
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Affiliation MED-EL GmbH, Innsbruck, Austria
- Claude Jolly
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Affiliation MED-EL GmbH, Innsbruck, Austria
- Michael Fehr
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Affiliation Clinic for Exotic Pets, Reptiles, Pet and Feral Birds, University of Veterinary Medicine, Foundation, Hannover, Germany
- Thomas Lenarz
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Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Cluster of Excellence “Hearing4all”, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Verena Scheper
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* E-mail: scheper.verena@mh-hannover.de
Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, Cluster of Excellence “Hearing4all”, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
Competing Interests
The data and results presented within this manuscript are in total obtained with MEDEL as a research partner having no financial interest on the outcome of the study. No products exactly comparable to the one used in this study will be released to the market. RH, KM, and CJ are employed by MEDEL Corporation. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: CJ VS RH. Performed the experiments: MW RH VS. Analyzed the data: MW KM TL VS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MF VS TL. Wrote the paper: MW RH KM CJ MF TL VS.