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Affiliations

• ¹ Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Institute of Translational Research, Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany; Department I of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Excellence Center for Medical Mycology (ECMM), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
• ² Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Institute of Translational Research, Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany; Department I of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Excellence Center for Medical Mycology (ECMM), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany; German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Bonn-Cologne, Cologne, Germany; Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Clinical Trials Centre Cologne (ZKS Köln), Cologne, Germany. Electronic address: oliver.cornely@uk-koeln.de.
• ³ Department of Medical Statistics, University of Goettingen Medical Centre, Goettingen, Germany.
• ⁴ Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, Excellence Center for Medical Mycology (ECMM), Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
• ⁵ Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Institute of Translational Research, Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany; Department I of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Excellence Center for Medical Mycology (ECMM), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany; German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Bonn-Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
• ⁶ Institute of Medical Statistics and Computational Biology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
• ⁷ Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Institute of Translational Research, Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany; Department I of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Excellence Center for Medical Mycology (ECMM), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany; Division of Clinical Immunology, Department I of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.