About the Authors

Abdul Mannan Baru

Affiliation Institute of Infection Immunology, TWINCORE, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research; a joint venture between the Medical School Hannover (MHH) and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Hannover, Germany

Venkateswaran Ganesh

Affiliation Institute of Infection Immunology, TWINCORE, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research; a joint venture between the Medical School Hannover (MHH) and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Hannover, Germany

Jayendra Kumar Krishnaswamy

Affiliation Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Christina Hesse

Affiliation Institute of Infection Immunology, TWINCORE, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research; a joint venture between the Medical School Hannover (MHH) and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Hannover, Germany

Christopher Untucht

Affiliation Institute of Infection Immunology, TWINCORE, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research; a joint venture between the Medical School Hannover (MHH) and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Hannover, Germany

Silke Glage

Affiliation Institute for Laboratory Animal Science, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Georg Behrens

Affiliation Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Christian Thomas Mayer

Affiliation Institute of Infection Immunology, TWINCORE, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research; a joint venture between the Medical School Hannover (MHH) and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Hannover, Germany

Franz Puttur

Affiliation Institute of Infection Immunology, TWINCORE, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research; a joint venture between the Medical School Hannover (MHH) and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Hannover, Germany

Tim Sparwasser

Tim.Sparwasser@twincore.de

Affiliation Institute of Infection Immunology, TWINCORE, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research; a joint venture between the Medical School Hannover (MHH) and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AMB TS. Performed the experiments: AMB VG JKK CH CU FP. Analyzed the data: AMB VG JKK CH CU SG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JKK GB. Wrote the paper: AMB CTM TS.