AK conducted animal and microscopy experiments as well as data evaluation and contributed to the manuscript.
BM carried out research design, statistical data analysis, data evaluation, research report, YG carried out research design, data evaluation, research report, HCT carried out data evaluation and research report, SO carried out data evaluation and contributed to the research report, AT contributed to research design, data collection and data evaluation.
PB performed best-estimate data evaluations and contributed to the data analysis.
LV developed optimized protocols, prepared the Actichip microarrays, carried out microarray experiments, contributed to oligonucleotide design and data evaluation and drafted the manuscript.
GC: Clinical evaluation of patients, serological assay and data analysis and contributed to writing the manuscript.
BG: Designed the study, analyzed the data and drafted the manuscript KH: Contributed to the study design, collected the data for the second evaluation and contributed to the manuscript drafting and data interpretation.
IS contributed to collection of patient sera and data evaluation.
IK contributed to the study protocol, working group and data evaluation.
SE: Collected and interpreted the data for the first evaluation and contributed to the study design.
KM took part in the planning and setup of the experiments, contributed to data evaluation, and wrote part of the manuscript.
Klaus Michael Stürmer contributed to data evaluation and final approval.
