About the Authors

Torben Wilms

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Torben.wilms@vll.se (TW); karin.nylander@umu.se (KN)

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences/ENT, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Gulfaraz Khan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation United Arab Emirates University, College of Medicine & Health Sciences, Dept. of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Tawam Hospital Campus, Al Ain, UAE

Philip J. Coates

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation RECAMO, Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute, Zluty kopec 7, Brno, Czech Republic

Nicola Sgaramella

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Biosciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Robin Fåhraeus

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations RECAMO, Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute, Zluty kopec 7, Brno, Czech Republic, Department of Medical Biosciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, University Paris Diderot, INSERM UMRS1162, 27 rue Juliette Dodu, Paris, France

Asma Hassani

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation United Arab Emirates University, College of Medicine & Health Sciences, Dept. of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Tawam Hospital Campus, Al Ain, UAE

Pretty S. Philip

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation United Arab Emirates University, College of Medicine & Health Sciences, Dept. of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Tawam Hospital Campus, Al Ain, UAE

Lena Norberg Spaak

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences/ENT, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Luigi Califano

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neuroscience Reproductive and Dentistry Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

Giuseppe Colella

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Second University of Naples, Multidisciplinary Department of Medical, Surgical and Dental Specialties, Naples, Italy

Katarina Olofsson

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences/ENT, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Christos Loizou

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences/ENT, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Renato Franco

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Dipartimento Universitario di Anatomia Patologica, Seconda Universita' Degli Studi di Napoli, Piazza Miraglia, Naples, Italy

Karin Nylander

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Torben.wilms@vll.se (TW); karin.nylander@umu.se (KN)

Affiliation Department of Medical Biosciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.