About the Authors

Werner Wunderli

Contributed equally to this work with: Werner Wunderli, Astrid Meerbach, Tayfun Guengoer

wunderli.werner@virology.uzh.ch (WW); caroline.tapparel@hcuge.ch (CT)

Affiliations Division of Clinical Virology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Laboratory of Virology, Division of Infectious Diseases and Division of Laboratory Medicine, University of Geneva Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland

Astrid Meerbach

Contributed equally to this work with: Werner Wunderli, Astrid Meerbach, Tayfun Guengoer

Affiliation Division of Clinical Virology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Tayfun Guengoer

Contributed equally to this work with: Werner Wunderli, Astrid Meerbach, Tayfun Guengoer

Affiliation Division of Immunology and Bone Marrow Transplantation, University Children's Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland

Christoph Berger

Affiliation Division of Immunology and Bone Marrow Transplantation, University Children's Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland

Oliver Greiner

Affiliation Division of Immunology and Bone Marrow Transplantation, University Children's Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland

Rosmarie Caduff

Affiliation Division of Pathology, University of Zurich Hospitals, Zurich, Switzerland

Alexandra Trkola

Affiliation Division of Clinical Virology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Walter Bossart

Affiliation Division of Clinical Virology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Daniel Gerlach

Affiliation Department of Genetic Medicine and Development and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland

Manuel Schibler

Affiliation Laboratory of Virology, Division of Infectious Diseases and Division of Laboratory Medicine, University of Geneva Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland

Samuel Cordey

Affiliations Laboratory of Virology, Division of Infectious Diseases and Division of Laboratory Medicine, University of Geneva Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland, Swiss National Reference Centre for Emerging Viruses (CRIVE), University of Geneva Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland

Thomas Alexander McKee

Affiliation Division of Pathology, University of Geneva Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland

Sandra Van Belle

Affiliation Laboratory of Virology, Division of Infectious Diseases and Division of Laboratory Medicine, University of Geneva Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland

Laurent Kaiser

Affiliation Laboratory of Virology, Division of Infectious Diseases and Division of Laboratory Medicine, University of Geneva Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland

Caroline Tapparel

wunderli.werner@virology.uzh.ch (WW); caroline.tapparel@hcuge.ch (CT)

Affiliation Laboratory of Virology, Division of Infectious Diseases and Division of Laboratory Medicine, University of Geneva Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CT LK AT WW. Performed the experiments: SVB AM RC TAM WB MS SC. Analyzed the data: CT LK WW AT DG TAM TG CB OG WB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WW AM RC WB TAM LK CT. Wrote the paper: WW CT LK. Corrected the manuscript: CB TG AT WB MS SC TAM.