About the Authors

Marijana Sekulic-Jablanovic

Contributed equally to this work with: Marijana Sekulic-Jablanovic, Vesna Petkovic

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft

marijana.sekulic@unibas.ch

Affiliation Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Vesna Petkovic

Contributed equally to this work with: Marijana Sekulic-Jablanovic, Vesna Petkovic

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Matthew B. Wright

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Strekin AG, Basel, Switzerland

Krystsina Kucharava

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Nathan Huerzeler

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Soledad Levano

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Yves Brand

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Clinic for Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Katharina Leitmeyer

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Andrea Glutz

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Alexander Bausch

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Strekin AG, Basel, Switzerland

Daniel Bodmer

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Clinic for Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Financial—Dr Alexander Bausch and Prof Daniel Bodmer are founders of and hold shares in Strekin AG. Dr Bausch is also employed and receives a salary from Strekin. Dr Wright is an employee and receives salary and holds shares in Strekin AG. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.