About the Authors
- Christoph Jünger
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Writing – original draft
Affiliation Medical Clinic, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center, Borstel, Germany
- Maja Reimann
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Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Borstel, Hamburg, Lübeck, Riems, Germany, Division of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Research Centre Borstel, Borstel, Germany, Respiratory Medicine & International Health, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
- Lenka Krabbe
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Roles Data curation, Project administration
Affiliation Medical Clinic, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center, Borstel, Germany
- Karoline I. Gaede
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Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Medical Clinic, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center, Borstel, Germany, Airway Research Center North (ARCN), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Giessen, Germany, BioMaterialBank Nord, Research Center Borstel - Leibniz Lung Center, Borstel, Germany
- Christoph Lange
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Medical Clinic, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center, Borstel, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Borstel, Hamburg, Lübeck, Riems, Germany, Division of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Research Centre Borstel, Borstel, Germany, Respiratory Medicine & International Health, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
- Christian Herzmann
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Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: cherzmann@fz-borstel.de
Affiliations Medical Clinic, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center, Borstel, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Borstel, Hamburg, Lübeck, Riems, Germany, Airway Research Center North (ARCN), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Giessen, Germany
- Stephan Rüller
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Medical Clinic, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center, Borstel, Germany
Competing Interests
SR invented the PLBV and has co-developed the Vigaro within the scope of a consulting contract with FLO medical. CL reports personal fees from Chiesi, Gilead, Janssen, Lucane, Novartis, Oxoid, Berlin Chemie and Thermofisher outside the submitted work. CH reports personal fees from Janssen outside the submitted work. CJ, KIG and LK have no conflicting interests to declare. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.