About the Authors
- Martina Kalle
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* E-mail: martina.kalle@med.lu.se
Affiliation Division of Dermatology and Venereology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Biomedical Center, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
- Praveen Papareddy
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Affiliation Division of Dermatology and Venereology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Biomedical Center, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
- Gopinath Kasetty
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Affiliation Division of Dermatology and Venereology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Biomedical Center, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
- Matthias Mörgelin
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Affiliation Division of Infection Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, Biomedical Center, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
- Mariena J. A. van der Plas
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Affiliation Division of Dermatology and Venereology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Biomedical Center, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
- Victoria Rydengård
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Affiliations Division of Dermatology and Venereology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Biomedical Center, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, Medeon Science Park, Malmö, Sweden
- Martin Malmsten
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Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
- Barbara Albiger
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Affiliations Division of Dermatology and Venereology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Biomedical Center, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden
- Artur Schmidtchen
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Affiliation Division of Dermatology and Venereology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Biomedical Center, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Competing Interests
Dr. Schmidtchen owns shares in Xmedic AB, a company that develops thrombin-derived peptides for human therapy. Parts of the in vivo work were initially sponsored by XImmune AB according to a research agreement with Lund University. XImmune AB has however transferred all IP rights concerning thrombin-derived host defense peptides to Xmedic AB. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all PLOS One policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: BA AS. Performed the experiments: MK PP GK MJAvdP VR M. Mörgelin. Analyzed the data: MK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: M. Malmsten M. Mörgelin. Wrote the paper: MK AS.