Bigalke, Arite
Sponholz, Christoph
Schnabel, Claudia
Bauer, Michael
Kiehntopf, Michael
Article History
Received: 29 November 2021
Accepted: 22 February 2022
First Online: 9 March 2022
Competing interests
: PD Dr. Dr. Kiehntopf and Dr. Bigalke are inventors of a patent covering the presented method as a tool for characterizing systemic inflammation (applicant: University Hospital Jena; inventors: Arite Bigalke and Michael Kiehntopf; application number: 22154836.5; status of application: submitted). The University Hospital Jena is also applicant of other published patents which are related to methods determining the origin of an infection (EP17719610.2; EP16167699.4). A patent covering the initial identification of C42 is published as well (published as CN104204808, EP2592421, EP2780719, US20170242035; Applicant: University Hospital Jena; Inventors: Michael Kiehntopf, Diana Schmerler, Thomas Deufel, Frank Brunkhorst). C. Schnabel, C. Sponholz and M. Bauer declare no potential competing interests.