About the Authors

Christoph Haller

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Medical Center Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Martin Berthold

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Dominique Wobser

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Andrea Kropec

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Marinella Lauriola

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Christian Schlensak

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Medical Center Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Johannes Huebner

johannes.huebner@med.uni-muenchen.de

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CH DW AK JH. Performed the experiments: CH MB DW ML. Analyzed the data: CH DW JH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CH DW AK JH. Wrote the paper: CH DW JH. Research support and discussions: CS.