Acknowledgments

The authors thank all children and their parents/guardians who took part in our Europe-wide study PreDicta. Moreover, the authors are grateful to S. Mittler, S. Trump and A. Graser at the Division of Molecular Pneumology at the FAU University Erlangen and to E. Muschiol, I. Jawa at the Paediatric Pneumology-Allergology, Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen and Erlangen Children Hospital for their technical support. Moreover, the authors thank Drs. M. Wölfel, M.O. Melichar, C. Reinhardt, A. Neubert, and Prof. Dr. W. Rascher from the Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen for their assistance in the PreDicta UKER WP-1 study. Furthermore, we thank R. Stergiou from the Allergy and Clinical Immunology Unit of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens for the RV1b.