About the Authors

Natascha Braach

Contributed equally to this work with: Natascha Braach, David Frommhold

natascha.braach@uni-heidelberg.de (NB); David.Frommhold@med.uni-heidelberg.de (DF)

Affiliation Department of Neonatology, University Children’s Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

David Frommhold

Contributed equally to this work with: Natascha Braach, David Frommhold

natascha.braach@uni-heidelberg.de (NB); David.Frommhold@med.uni-heidelberg.de (DF)

Affiliation Department of Neonatology, University Children’s Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Kirsten Buschmann

Affiliation Department of Neonatology, University Children’s Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Johanna Pflaum

Affiliation Department of Neonatology, University Children’s Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Lutz Koch

Affiliation Department of Neonatology, University Children’s Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Hannes Hudalla

Affiliation Department of Neonatology, University Children’s Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Kathrin Staudacher

Affiliation Department of Neonatology, University Children’s Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Hongjie Wang

Affiliation Department of Clinical Chemistry and Biochemistry, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany

Berend Isermann

Affiliation Department of Clinical Chemistry and Biochemistry, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany

Peter Nawroth

Affiliation Department of Medicine I and Clinical Chemistry, University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Johannes Poeschl

Affiliation Department of Neonatology, University Children’s Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DF J. Poeschl. Performed the experiments: NB KB J. Pflaum HW. Analyzed the data: NB DF KB J. Pflaum HW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BI PN J. Poeschl. Wrote the paper: NB DF. Edited the manuscript: KB LK HH KS BI PN J. Poeschl. Consulted research design: PN.