About the Authors

Norman Zinne

Contributed equally to this work with: Norman Zinne, Marcus Krueger

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

zinne.norman@mh-hannover.de

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation, and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Marcus Krueger

Contributed equally to this work with: Norman Zinne, Marcus Krueger

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

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation, and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Doris Hoeltig

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

Affiliation Clinic for Swine, Small Ruminants, Forensic Medicine, and Ambulatory Service, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Burkhard Tuemmler

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Clinic for Paediatric Pneumology, Allergology, and Neonatology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany, Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover (BREATH), Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Erin C. Boyle

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation, and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Christian Biancosino

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation, and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Klaus Hoeffler

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation, and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Peter Braubach

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliations Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover (BREATH), Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany, Institute for Pathology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Taufiek K. Rajab

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Anatol Ciubotaru

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation, and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Judith Rohde

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute for Microbiology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Karl-Heinz Waldmann

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Clinic for Swine, Small Ruminants, Forensic Medicine, and Ambulatory Service, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Axel Haverich

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation, and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany, Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover (BREATH), Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.