About the Authors

Gabriele Gadermaier

Gabriele.Gadermaier@sbg.ac.at

Affiliation Christian Doppler Laboratory for Allergy Diagnosis and Therapy, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

Michael Hauser

Affiliation Christian Doppler Laboratory for Allergy Diagnosis and Therapy, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

Matthias Egger

Affiliation Christian Doppler Laboratory for Allergy Diagnosis and Therapy, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

Rosetta Ferrara

Affiliation Center for Molecular Allergology, IDI-IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Peter Briza

Affiliation Christian Doppler Laboratory for Allergy Diagnosis and Therapy, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

Keity Souza Santos

Affiliation Discipline of Allergy and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Danila Zennaro

Affiliation Center for Molecular Allergology, IDI-IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Tamara Girbl

Affiliation Christian Doppler Laboratory for Allergy Diagnosis and Therapy, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

Laurian Zuidmeer-Jongejan

Affiliation Laboratory of Allergy, Department of Experimental Immunology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Adriano Mari

Affiliation Center for Molecular Allergology, IDI-IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Fatima Ferreira

Affiliation Christian Doppler Laboratory for Allergy Diagnosis and Therapy, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

Competing Interests

The role of Biomay AG in funding the research was via the Christian Doppler Research Association, a government institution partially financed by industrial partners. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GG AM FF. Performed the experiments: GG MH ME KSS RF TG PB DZ. Analyzed the data: GG PB AM FF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LZJ. Wrote the paper: GG FF.