About the Authors

Gilles Spoden

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Kirsten Freitag

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Matthias Husmann

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Klaus Boller

Affiliation Paul Ehrlich Institute, Langen, Germany

Martin Sapp

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, Center for Molecular Tumor Virology, LSU Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Carsten Lambert

lambert@uni-mainz.de

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Luise Florin

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GS KB CL LF. Performed the experiments: GS KF KB CL LF. Analyzed the data: GS MH KB MS CL LF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MH MS. Wrote the paper: CL.