About the Authors

Jan Felix Drexler

Contributed equally to this work with: Jan Felix Drexler, Victor Max Corman

Affiliations Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, Institute of Virology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany

Victor Max Corman

Contributed equally to this work with: Jan Felix Drexler, Victor Max Corman

Affiliation Institute of Virology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany

Florian Gloza-Rausch

Affiliation Noctalis, Centre for Bat Protection and Information, Bad Segeberg, Germany

Antje Seebens

Affiliation Noctalis, Centre for Bat Protection and Information, Bad Segeberg, Germany

Augustina Annan

Affiliation Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kumasi, Ghana

Anne Ipsen

Affiliation Noctalis, Centre for Bat Protection and Information, Bad Segeberg, Germany

Thomas Kruppa

Affiliations Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), Kumasi, Ghana

Marcel A. Müller

Affiliation Institute of Virology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany

Elisabeth K. V. Kalko

Affiliations Institute of Experimental Ecology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama

Yaw Adu-Sarkodie

Affiliation Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Samuel Oppong

Affiliation Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Christian Drosten

drosten@virology-bonn.de

Affiliations Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, Institute of Virology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JFD CD. Performed the experiments: VMC. Analyzed the data: JFD VMC CD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FGR AS AA AI TK MAM EKVK YAS SO. Wrote the paper: JFD CD.