About the Authors

Guanggang Ma

Affiliation Institut für Virologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Michael Eschbaumer

Affiliation Institut für Virusdiagnostik, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany

Abdelrahman Said

Affiliation Institut für Virologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Bernd Hoffmann

Affiliation Institut für Virusdiagnostik, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany

Martin Beer

Affiliation Institut für Virusdiagnostik, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany

Nikolaus Osterrieder

no.34@fu-berlin.de

Affiliation Institut für Virologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GM ME MB NO. Performed the experiments: GM ME MB AS BH NO. Analyzed the data: GM ME MB NO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GM AS BH ME MB NO. Wrote the paper: GM ME MB NO.