About the Authors
- Raffaele Brogna
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft
Affiliations Unit for Reproductive Medicine—Clinic for Horses, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany, Biostabilization laboratory—Lower Saxony Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Implant Research and Development, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany
- Harriëtte Oldenhof
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Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Unit for Reproductive Medicine—Clinic for Horses, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany
- Harald Sieme
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Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Unit for Reproductive Medicine—Clinic for Horses, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany
- Constança Figueiredo
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Roles Resources
Affiliation Institute for Transfusion Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
- Tobias Kerrinnes
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Roles Funding acquisition
Affiliation Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
- Willem F. Wolkers
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Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: willem.wolkers@tiho-hannover.de
Affiliations Unit for Reproductive Medicine—Clinic for Horses, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany, Biostabilization laboratory—Lower Saxony Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Implant Research and Development, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany
Competing Interests
The work described in this study was financially supported via funds provided by the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) and the Maschmeyer Group. The Maschmeyer group is a commercial funder. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. This funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The initial phase of this work was performed at the Institute of Multiphase Processes at the Leibniz University Hannover, funded via the German Research Foundation (DFG) REBIRTH-excellence cluster.