1. Department of Internal Medicine II, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria;
2. Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany;
3. Department of Internal Medicine V, Hematology and Oncology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria;
4. Medical Clinic 3, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany;
5. Christian Doppler Laboratory for Iron Metabolism and Anemia Research,
6. Division of Hygiene and Medical Microbiology,
7. Central Institute for Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics, and
8. Division of Molecular Biology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria; and
9. Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik I, Hämatologie und Zelltherapie, Universitatsklinikum Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany