About the Authors
- Elena Helk
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Contributed equally to this work with: Elena Helk, Hannah Bernin
Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
- Hannah Bernin
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Contributed equally to this work with: Elena Helk, Hannah Bernin
Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
- Thomas Ernst
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Affiliation Department and Clinic for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
- Harald Ittrich
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Affiliation Department and Clinic for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
- Thomas Jacobs
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Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
- Joerg Heeren
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
- Frank Tacke
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Affiliation Department of Medicine III, University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany
- Egbert Tannich
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Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
- Hannelore Lotter
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* E-mail: lotter@bni-hamburg.de
Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: HL TJ ET. Performed the experiments: EH HB TE HL. Analyzed the data: HL EH HB TE TJ FT ET. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TJ HI JH FT. Wrote the paper: HL EH HB. Other: HL.