About the Authors

Carlos Fritzsche

Contributed equally to this work with: Carlos Fritzsche, Oliver Stachs

carlos.fritzsche@med.uni-rostock.de

Affiliation Division of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Oliver Stachs

Contributed equally to this work with: Carlos Fritzsche, Oliver Stachs

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Martha Charlotte Holtfreter

Affiliation Division of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Constanze Nohr-Łuczak

Affiliation Department of Urology, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Rudolf Friedrich Guthoff

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Emil Christian Reisinger

Affiliation Division of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CF OS MH CNL RFG ECR. Performed the experiments: OS CNL. Analyzed the data: CF MH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OS CNL RFG. Wrote the paper: CF.