About the Authors

Elena Helk

Contributed equally to this work with: Elena Helk, Hannah Bernin

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Hannah Bernin

Contributed equally to this work with: Elena Helk, Hannah Bernin

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Thomas Ernst

Affiliation Department and Clinic for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Harald Ittrich

Affiliation Department and Clinic for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Thomas Jacobs

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Joerg Heeren

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Frank Tacke

Affiliation Department of Medicine III, University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Egbert Tannich

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Hannelore Lotter

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.