About the Authors

Bente Köten

Contributed equally to this work with: Bente Köten, Maren Simanski

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Maren Simanski

Contributed equally to this work with: Bente Köten, Maren Simanski

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Regine Gläser

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Rainer Podschun

Affiliation Institute for Infection Medicine, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Jens-Michael Schröder

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Jürgen Harder

jharder@dermatology.uni-kiel.de

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BK MS RG RP JMS JH. Performed the experiments: BK MS RG. Analyzed the data: BK MS RG RP JMS JH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JMS JH. Wrote the paper: JH.