About the Authors

Beryl Primrose Gladstone

Affiliation Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine I, DZIF Partner, Tübingen University Hospital, Tübingen, Germany

Andrea Cona

Affiliations Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine I, DZIF Partner, Tübingen University Hospital, Tübingen, Germany, Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, San Paolo Hospital, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Parichehr Shamsrizi

Affiliation Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine I, DZIF Partner, Tübingen University Hospital, Tübingen, Germany

Tuba Vilken

Affiliation Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine I, DZIF Partner, Tübingen University Hospital, Tübingen, Germany

Winfred V. Kern

Affiliation Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University Hospital and Medical Center and Albert-Ludwigs-University Faculty of Medicine, Freiburg, Germany

Nisar Malek

Affiliation Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine I, DZIF Partner, Tübingen University Hospital, Tübingen, Germany

Evelina Tacconelli

Evelina.Tacconelli@med.uni-tuebingen.de

Affiliation Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine I, DZIF Partner, Tübingen University Hospital, Tübingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ET. Data curation: TV PS AC BPG. Formal analysis: BPG. Funding acquisition: ET. Investigation: BPG WK YC NM TV. Methodology: ET BPG. Validation: BPG WK NM TV. Writing – original draft: BPG ET. Writing – review & editing: WK AC NM.