About the Authors
- Tetyana Zakharkina
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine V – Pulmonology, Allergology, Respiratory Intensive Care Medicine, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg, Germany
- Elke Heinzel
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Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene of the University of Saarland, Homburg/Saar, Germany
- Rembert A. Koczulla
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Affiliation Clinic of Pneumology, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- Timm Greulich
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Affiliation Clinic of Pneumology, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- Katharina Rentz
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine V – Pulmonology, Allergology, Respiratory Intensive Care Medicine, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg, Germany
- Josch K. Pauling
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Affiliation Department of Computational Systems Biology, Max-Plank Institute for Informatics, Saarbruecken, Germany
- Jan Baumbach
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Current address: Computational Biology group, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej, Odense M, Denmark
Affiliation Department of Computational Systems Biology, Max-Plank Institute for Informatics, Saarbruecken, Germany
- Mathias Herrmann
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Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene of the University of Saarland, Homburg/Saar, Germany
- Christiane Grünewald
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Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Thoraxklinik at the University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Hendrik Dienemann
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Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Thoraxklinik at the University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Lutz von Müller
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Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene of the University of Saarland, Homburg/Saar, Germany
- Robert Bals
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* E-mail: robert.bals@uks.eu
Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine V – Pulmonology, Allergology, Respiratory Intensive Care Medicine, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: TZ EH ARK TG KR JKP JB MH CG HD LvM RB. Performed the experiments: TZ EH ARK TG KR JKP JB MH CG LvM RB. Analyzed the data: TZ EH JKP JB LvM RB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ARK TG CG HD RB. Wrote the paper: TZ JKP JB RB.