About the Authors

Norbert Becker

Contributed equally to this work with: Norbert Becker, Hanna Jöst, Ute Ziegler

Affiliations German Mosquito Control Association (KABS), Waldsee, Germany, Department of Zoology, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

Hanna Jöst

Contributed equally to this work with: Norbert Becker, Hanna Jöst, Ute Ziegler

Affiliations German Mosquito Control Association (KABS), Waldsee, Germany, Department of Zoology, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Virology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Ute Ziegler

Contributed equally to this work with: Norbert Becker, Hanna Jöst, Ute Ziegler

Affiliation Institute for Novel and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Greifswald, Germany

Martin Eiden

Affiliation Institute for Novel and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Greifswald, Germany

Dirk Höper

Affiliation Institute of Diagnostic Virology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Greifswald, Germany

Petra Emmerich

Affiliation Department of Virology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Elisabeth Fichet-Calvet

Affiliation Department of Virology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Deborah U. Ehichioya

Affiliation Department of Virology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Christina Czajka

Affiliations German Mosquito Control Association (KABS), Waldsee, Germany, Department of Zoology, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Virology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Martin Gabriel

Affiliation Department of Virology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Bernd Hoffmann

Affiliation Institute of Diagnostic Virology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Greifswald, Germany

Martin Beer

Affiliation Institute of Diagnostic Virology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Greifswald, Germany

Klara Tenner-Racz

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Paul Racz

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Stephan Günther

Affiliation Department of Virology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Michael Wink

Affiliation Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

Stefan Bosch

Affiliation Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany

Armin Konrad

Affiliation Avifauna-Nordbaden.de, Ornithologische Gesellschaft Baden-Württemberg (OGBW)-Nordbaden, Heidelberg, Germany

Martin Pfeffer

Affiliation Institute of Animal Hygiene and Veterinary Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Martin H. Groschup

Affiliation Institute for Novel and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Greifswald, Germany

Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit

jonassi@gmx.de

Affiliation Department of Virology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NB JS MHG. Performed the experiments: HJ UZ ME DH EF DUE CC KT PR MP. Analyzed the data: NB JS MHG DH MP UZ ME. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MW SB AK MB BH PE MG. Wrote the paper: JS SG MHG MP.