About the Authors

Giedre Zurauskaite

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Medical University Department, Kantonsspital Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland

Marc Meier

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical University Department, Kantonsspital Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland

Alaadin Voegeli

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical University Department, Kantonsspital Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland

Daniel Koch

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical University Department, Kantonsspital Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland

Sebastian Haubitz

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical University Department, Kantonsspital Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland

Alexander Kutz

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Medical University Department, Kantonsspital Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland

Luca Bernasconi

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Kantonsspital Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland

Andreas Huber

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Kantonsspital Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland

Mario Bargetzi

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transfusion Medicine, Kantonsspital Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland

Beat Mueller

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical University Department, Kantonsspital Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland

Philipp Schuetz

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

schuetzph@gmail.com

Affiliation Medical University Department, Kantonsspital Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland

Competing Interests

PS is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF Professorship, PP00P3_150531) and the Forschungsrat of the Kantonsspital Aarau (1410.000.058 and 1410.000.044). PS and BM received research support from BRAHMS/Thermofisher, BioMerieux, Roche, Abbott, Nestle and Novo Nordisk. AK received research support from BRAHMS/Thermofisher, BioMerieux, and Novo Nordisk. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.