About the Authors
- Milena Lange
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Contributed equally to this work with: Milena Lange, Melanie Fiedler
Affiliation Institute of Virology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
- Melanie Fiedler
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Contributed equally to this work with: Milena Lange, Melanie Fiedler
Affiliation Institute of Virology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
- Dorothea Bankwitz
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Affiliation Division of Experimental Virology, TWINCORE, Hannover, Germany
- William Osburn
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Sergei Viazov
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Affiliation Institute of Virology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
- Olena Brovko
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Affiliation Institute of Virology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
- Abdel-Rahman Zekri
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Affiliation Virology and Immunology Unit, National Cancer Institute, Cairo, Egypt
- Yury Khudyakov
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Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Michael Nassal
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- Paul Pumpens
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Affiliation Department of Recombinant biotechnology, Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre, Riga, Latvia
- Thomas Pietschmann
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Affiliation Division of Experimental Virology, TWINCORE, Hannover, Germany
- Jörg Timm
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Affiliation Institute of Virology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
- Michael Roggendorf
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Affiliation Institute of Virology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
- Andreas Walker
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* E-mail: Andreas.Walker@uni-due.de
Affiliation Institute of Virology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts. Authors MN and AW are inventors of a patent application for the SplitCore system [Ref: WO/2008/028535] entitled “Split-core-particles for the presentation of foreign molecules, especially for vaccine applications, and method for their production” [Ref: EP 2059525 B1 and WO/2008/028535]. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MF SV ARZ YK MN PP TP JT MR AW. Performed the experiments: ML MF DB WO OB YK AW. Analyzed the data: ML MF DB WO SV ARZ YK TP JT MR AW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MN PP ARZ. Wrote the paper: MF MN JT MR AW.