About the Authors

Martin Meyer

Contributed equally to this work with: Martin Meyer, Helena Fehling, Jenny Matthiesen

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Helena Fehling

Contributed equally to this work with: Martin Meyer, Helena Fehling, Jenny Matthiesen

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Jenny Matthiesen

Contributed equally to this work with: Martin Meyer, Helena Fehling, Jenny Matthiesen

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Stephan Lorenzen

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Kathrin Schuldt

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Hannah Bernin

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Mareen Zaruba

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Corinna Lender

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Thomas Ernst

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

Harald Ittrich

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

Thomas Roeder

Affiliation Zoological Institute, Molecular Physiology, Christian-Albrechts University Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Egbert Tannich

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Hannelore Lotter

lotter@bnitm.de (HL); bruchhaus@bnitm.de (IB)

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Iris Bruchhaus

lotter@bnitm.de (HL); bruchhaus@bnitm.de (IB)

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: HL IB. Data curation: SL HF IB. Formal analysis: HF SL KS IB. Funding acquisition: IB HL MM. Investigation: MM HF JM HB MZ CL TE. Methodology: MM HF JM ET HL IB. Project administration: HL IB. Software: SL KS. Supervision: ET HL IB. Validation: MM HF JM HB MZ CL TE HI HL IB. Visualization: MM HF JM MZ CL IB HL. Writing – original draft: TR ET HL IB. Writing – review & editing: TR HI ET HL IB.