About the Authors

Klaus Hirschbühl

Contributed equally to this work with: Klaus Hirschbühl, Sebastian Dintner

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

klaus.hirschbuehl@uk-augsburg.de

Affiliation Hematology and Oncology, Medical Faculty, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

Sebastian Dintner

Contributed equally to this work with: Klaus Hirschbühl, Sebastian Dintner

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation General Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics, Medical Faculty, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

Martin Beer

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Diagnostic Virology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany

Claudia Wylezich

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Diagnostic Virology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany

Jürgen Schlegel

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Neuropathology, School of Medicine, Institute of Pathology, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany

Claire Delbridge

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Neuropathology, School of Medicine, Institute of Pathology, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany

Lukas Borcherding

Roles Investigation

Affiliation General Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics, Medical Faculty, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

Jirina Lippert

Roles Investigation

Affiliation General Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics, Medical Faculty, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

Stefan Schiele

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Institute of Mathematics, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

Gernot Müller

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Institute of Mathematics, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

Dimitra Moiraki

Roles Investigation

Affiliation General Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics, Medical Faculty, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

Oliver Spring

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine, Medical Faculty, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

Michael Wittmann

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Hematology and Oncology, Medical Faculty, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

Elisabeth Kling

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Microbiology, Medical Faculty, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

Georg Braun

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospital Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

Thomas Kröncke

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Medical Faculty, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

Rainer Claus

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

Affiliation Hematology and Oncology, Medical Faculty, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

Bruno Märkl

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

Affiliation General Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics, Medical Faculty, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

Tina Schaller

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation General Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics, Medical Faculty, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.