Prospective multicenter German study on pulmonary colonization with Scedosporium /Lomentospora species in cystic fibrosis: Epidemiology and new association factors

• Carsten Schwarz ,

  * E-mail: carsten.schwarz@charite.de

  Affiliation Department of Pediatric Pneumology and Immunology, Cystic Fibrosis Center Berlin/Charité –Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Claudia Brandt,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatric Pneumology and Immunology, Cystic Fibrosis Center Berlin/Charité –Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Elisabeth Antweiler,

  Affiliation Reference Laboratory for Cryptococcosis, Scedosporiosis and Imported Systemic Mycoses, FG 16, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

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• Alexander Krannich,

  Affiliation Biostatistics Unit, Berlin Institute of Health, Charité –Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Doris Staab,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatric Pneumology and Immunology, Cystic Fibrosis Center Berlin/Charité –Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Sabina Schmitt-Grohé,

  Affiliation Universitätsklinikum Bonn, Department of General Pediatrics, Bonn, Germany

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• Rainald Fischer,

  Affiliation Privat Praxis West-München, Munich, Germany

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• Dominik Hartl,

  Affiliation Universitätsklinikum für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin Tübingen, Department of General Pediatrics, Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Tübingen, Germany

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• Anja Thronicke ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anja Thronicke, Kathrin Tintelnot

  Current address: Research Institute Havelhöhe gGmbH, Berlin, Germany

  Affiliation Department of Pediatric Pneumology and Immunology, Cystic Fibrosis Center Berlin/Charité –Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Kathrin Tintelnot

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anja Thronicke, Kathrin Tintelnot

  Affiliation Reference Laboratory for Cryptococcosis, Scedosporiosis and Imported Systemic Mycoses, FG 16, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

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