Acknowledgements
We thank all children and parents for their cooperation, and all
technical and administrative support staff and medical and field work
teams. We are also grateful to all members of the LISA Study Group. The
LISA Study group consists of the following: Helmholtz Zentrum München,
German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute of
Epidemiology, Munich (Heinrich J, Schnappinger M, Brüske I, Ferland M,
Schulz H, Zeller C, Standl M, Thiering E, Tiesler C, Flexeder C);
Department of Pediatrics, Municipal Hospital “St. Georg”, Leipzig
(Borte M, Diez U, Dorn C, Braun E); Marien Hospital Wesel, Department of
Pediatrics, Wesel (von Berg A, Berdel D, Stiers G, Maas B); Pediatric
Practice, Bad Honnef (Schaaf B); Helmholtz Centre of Environmental
Research – UFZ, Department of Environmental Immunology, Leipzig
(Lehmann I, Bauer M, Röder S, Schilde M, Nowak M, Herberth G, Müller J);
Technical University Munich, Department of Pediatrics, Munich (Hoffmann
U, Paschke M, Marra S); Clinical Research Group Molecular Dermatology,
Department of Dermatology and Allergy, Technische Universität München
(TUM), Munich (Ollert M, Grosch J).
We would also like to thank Sebastian Fried, Sachgebiet Stadtbäume, Amt
für Stadtgrün und Gewässer, Stadt Leipzig, Germany, for providing us
Leipzig tree registry (“Baumkataster”) data without which this
analysis would not have been possible.