About the Authors

Susanne E. Biesold

Affiliation Institute of Virology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany

Daniel Ritz

Affiliation Institute of Virology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany

Florian Gloza-Rausch

Affiliations Institute of Virology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany, Noctalis, Centre for Bat Protection and Information, Bad Segeberg, Germany

Robert Wollny

Affiliation Institute of Virology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany

Jan Felix Drexler

Affiliation Institute of Virology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany

Victor M. Corman

Affiliation Institute of Virology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany

Elisabeth K. V. Kalko

Affiliations Institute of Experimental Ecology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama

Samuel Oppong

Affiliation Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Christian Drosten

drosten@virology-bonn.de

Affiliation Institute of Virology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany

Marcel A. Müller

Affiliation Institute of Virology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SEB DR MAM CD. Performed the experiments: SEB DR RW MAM. Analyzed the data: SEB DR CD MAM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FGR RW JFD VMC EKVK SO CD MAM. Wrote the paper: SEB DR CD MAM.