About the Authors

Maria Heckel

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Heckel, Walter Geißdörfer

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

maria.heckel@uk-erlangen.de (MH); walter.geissdoerfer@uk-erlangen.de (WG)

‡ MH and WG should be considered as joint first authors. CO and CB share the senior authorship.

Affiliation Department of Palliative Medicine, Comprehensive Cancer Center CCC Erlangen-EMN, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Walter Geißdörfer

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Heckel, Walter Geißdörfer

Roles Data curation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

maria.heckel@uk-erlangen.de (MH); walter.geissdoerfer@uk-erlangen.de (WG)

‡ MH and WG should be considered as joint first authors. CO and CB share the senior authorship.

Affiliation Mikrobiologisches Institut - Klinische Mikrobiologie, Immunologie und Hygiene, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Franziska A. Herbst

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for General Practice, Hannover Medical School, Germany

Stephanie Stiel

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

Affiliation Institute for General Practice, Hannover Medical School, Germany

Christoph Ostgathe

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ MH and WG should be considered as joint first authors. CO and CB share the senior authorship.

Affiliation Department of Palliative Medicine, Comprehensive Cancer Center CCC Erlangen-EMN, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Christian Bogdan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ MH and WG should be considered as joint first authors. CO and CB share the senior authorship.

Affiliation Mikrobiologisches Institut - Klinische Mikrobiologie, Immunologie und Hygiene, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.