About the Authors

Nils Venhoff

Contributed equally to this work with: Nils Venhoff, Nora M. Effelsberg

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Nora M. Effelsberg

Contributed equally to this work with: Nils Venhoff, Nora M. Effelsberg

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Ulrich Salzer

Affiliations Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Centre for Chronic Immunodeficiency (CCI), University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Klaus Warnatz

Affiliations Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Centre for Chronic Immunodeficiency (CCI), University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Hans Hartmut Peter

Affiliations Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Centre for Chronic Immunodeficiency (CCI), University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Dirk Lebrecht

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Michael Schlesier

Affiliations Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Centre for Chronic Immunodeficiency (CCI), University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Reinhard E. Voll

Affiliations Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Centre for Chronic Immunodeficiency (CCI), University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Jens Thiel

jens.thiel@uniklinik-freiburg.de

Affiliations Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Centre for Chronic Immunodeficiency (CCI), University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JT NV NE. Performed the experiments: NE JT NV. Analyzed the data: NV JT NE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DL MS. Wrote the paper: NV JT KW HP RV US.