About the Authors

Oliver Hohn

Affiliations Centre for Biological Security 4, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany, Centre for Retrovirology, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

Kristin Strohschein

Affiliation Institute for Medical Immunology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Alexander U. Brandt

Affiliation NeuroCure Clinical Research Center (NCRC), Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Sandra Seeher

Affiliation Centre for Biological Security 4, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

Sandra Klein

Affiliation Centre for Biological Security 4, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

Reinhard Kurth

Affiliation Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

Friedemann Paul

Affiliation NeuroCure Clinical Research Center (NCRC), Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Christian Meisel

Affiliation Institute for Medical Immunology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Carmen Scheibenbogen

Contributed equally to this work with: Carmen Scheibenbogen, Norbert Bannert

Affiliation Institute for Medical Immunology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Norbert Bannert

Contributed equally to this work with: Carmen Scheibenbogen, Norbert Bannert

bannertn@rki.de

Affiliations Centre for Biological Security 4, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany, Centre for Retrovirology, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NB OH CS FP AUB RK. Performed the experiments: OH SS SK KS AUB. Analyzed the data: NB OH KS AUB CS FP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CM AUB KS. Wrote the paper: OH NB.