About the Authors

Lena M. Biehl

Contributed equally to this work with: Lena M. Biehl, Debora Garzetti

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

Affiliations University of Cologne, Department I of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Institute for Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner site Bonn-Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Debora Garzetti

Contributed equally to this work with: Lena M. Biehl, Debora Garzetti

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Max von Pettenkofer Institute, Faculty of Medicine, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner site Munich, Munich, Germany

Fedja Farowski

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations University of Cologne, Department I of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner site Bonn-Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Diana Ring

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Max von Pettenkofer Institute, Faculty of Medicine, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany

Martin B. Koeppel

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Max von Pettenkofer Institute, Faculty of Medicine, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner site Munich, Munich, Germany

Holger Rohde

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute for Medical Microbiology, Virology and Hygiene, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner site Hamburg-Borstel, Hamburg, Germany

Philippe Schafhausen

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Oncology and Hematology, Hubertus Wald Tumorzentrum/University Cancer Center Hamburg, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Bärbel Stecher

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

Affiliations Max von Pettenkofer Institute, Faculty of Medicine, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner site Munich, Munich, Germany

Maria J. G. T. Vehreschild

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

maria.vehreschild@uk-koeln.de

Affiliations University of Cologne, Department I of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner site Bonn-Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Infectious Diseases Unit, Medical Clinic II, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Competing Interests

LMB has received lecture honoraria from Astellas Pharma and MSD and travel grants from 3M and Gilead. MJGTV has served at the speakers’ bureau of Pfizer, Merck, Gilead Sciences and Astellas Pharma, received research funding from 3M, DaVolterra, Astellas Pharma, Gilead Sciences and Merck and is a consultant to Berlin Chemie, Astellas Pharma and Merck. All other authors: none to declare. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.