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.