Department of Radiology, Borders General Hospital, Melrose, Scotland, UK

Division of Infection Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

1Division of Epidemiology & Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; 2Department
of Epidemiology, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA;
3Department of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA; 3Department of Pathology, University of Vermont, Burlington,
Vermont, USA

1Department of Neurology, University Medical Centre Groningen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands; 2Department of Haematology,
University Medical Centre Groningen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands; 3Department of Neurology, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel,
Vrije Universiteit, Brussel, Belgium

1Department of Biochemistry, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; 2Department of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston,
Ontario, Canada

CSL Behring GmbH, Marburg, Germany

1Department of Pediatrics, Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Nara, Japan; 2Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University
of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

1Haematology Laboratory, University Hospital, Nîmes, France; 2Department of Biostatistics, clinical Epidemiology, public Health and Medical
Information, University Hospital, Nîmes, France; 3Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital, Nîmes, France;
4Haematology Laboratory, Faculty of Pharmacy, Montpellier1 University, Montpellier, France; 5Research team EA2992, Montpellier1 University,
Montpellier, France; 6Research team EA3065, St Etienne, France

1Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Vascular Medicine and Haemostaseology, University Hospital Frankfurt, Germany; 2Department
of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University Hospital Frankfurt, Germany; 3Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine
and Pain Management, University Hospital Frankfurt, Germany; 4SPSS GmbH München, Germany; 5Institute of Transfusion Medicine and
Immunohematology, Blood Transfusion Center of the German Red Cross, Frankfurt, Germany

1Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK; 2Department of Respiratory Medicine,
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK; 3Department of Radiology, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

1Department of Internal Medicine, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands; 2Department of Clinical Chemistry and
Haematology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands; 3Department of Hematology/ Van Creveldkliniek, University
Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands; 4Department of Pulmonary Disease, St. Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands;
5Department of Statistics, St. Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands; 6Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Technology
Assessment, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands

1Department of Pharmacy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; 2Cardiovascular Division,
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; 3Center for Outcomes
Research, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

1Division of Drug Research, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; 2Division of Cell Biology, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

1Research Institute for Internal Medicine, Rikshospitalet, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway; 2Department of Cardiology, Rikshospitalet,
Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway; 3Section of Clinical Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Rikshospitalet, Oslo University Hospital,
Oslo, Norway; 4Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; 5Department of Medicine and Centre for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska
University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA; 2Department of Microbiology
and Immunology, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA; 3Department of Biology, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky,
USA; 4Department of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA

1Department of Clinical Chemistry, St. Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, the Netherlands; 2Department of Cardiology, St. Antonius Hospital,
Nieuwegein, the Netherlands; 3Department of Cardiology, UMC St. Radboud, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

1Hematology-Oncology Section, Medical Service, VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; 2University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
Minnesota, USA; 3Research Service, VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

1Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Experimental and Clinical Haemostasis, University Hospital of Muenster, Muenster,
Germany; 2Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital of Muenster, Muenster, Germany; 3Research Center for Infectious Diseases,
University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany; 4Present address: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Wuerzburg,
Wuerzburg, Germany; 5Present address: Department Genetics of Microorganisms, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

1Institute of Medical Microbiology, Hygiene and Infectious Diseases, Paracelsus Medical Private University, University Hospital Salzburg,
Austria; 2Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein Campus Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany

1University of Athens, Second Cardiology Department, Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece; 2University of Leipzig, Heart Center,
Department of Electrophysiology, Leipzig, Germany; 3Heart Center Hirslanden, Department of Electrophysiology, Zurich, Switzerland