About the Authors

Tobias Müller

Contributed equally to this work with: Tobias Müller, Thorsten Dürk

Affiliation Department of Pneumology, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Thorsten Dürk

Contributed equally to this work with: Tobias Müller, Thorsten Dürk

Affiliation Department of Pneumology, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Britta Blumenthal

Affiliation Department of Pneumology, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Melanie Grimm

Affiliation Department of Pneumology, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Sanja Cicko

Affiliation Department of Pneumology, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Elisabeth Panther

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Stephan Sorichter

Affiliation Department of Pneumology, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Yared Herouy

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Francesco Di Virgilio

Affiliation Department of Experimental and Diagnostic Medicine, Section of General Pathology, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Inflammation, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

Davide Ferrari

Affiliation Department of Experimental and Diagnostic Medicine, Section of General Pathology, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Inflammation, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

Johannes Norgauer

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Jena, Jena, Germany

Marco Idzko

marco.idzko@uniklinik-freiburg.de

Affiliation Department of Pneumology, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TM TD MI. Performed the experiments: TM TD MG EP. Analyzed the data: TM TD BB MG SC EP YH FDV DF JN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FDV DF. Wrote the paper: TM TD BB SS JN MI.