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Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Dermatology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.
• ² Department of Dermatology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany; Manchester Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
• ³ Department of Dermatology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany; Lübeck Institute of Experimental Dermatology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.
• ⁴ Lübeck Institute of Experimental Dermatology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany; Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel.
• ⁵ Lübeck Institute of Experimental Dermatology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.
• ⁶ Department of Dermatology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany; Lübeck Institute of Experimental Dermatology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany. christoph.hammers@uksh.de.