Torque Teno Virus load in lung cancer patients correlates with age but not with tumor stage

• Dirk Stefani,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ruhrlandklinik, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5318-8113

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• Balazs Hegedues,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ruhrlandklinik, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4341-4153

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• Stephane Collaud,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ruhrlandklinik, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4749-1017

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• Mohamed Zaatar,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ruhrlandklinik, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

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• Till Ploenes,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ruhrlandklinik, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

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• Daniel Valdivia,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ruhrlandklinik, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

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• Carina Elsner,

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

  Affiliation Institute of Virology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6590-8413

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• Barbara Bleekmann,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Virology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

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• Marek Widera,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Virology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany, Institute of Medical Virology, University Hospital Frankfurt am Main, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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• Ulf Dittmer,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Virology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

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• Clemens Aigner

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: clemens.aigner@rlk.uk-essen.de

  Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ruhrlandklinik, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7787-991X

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