About the Authors

Ellen Van Gulck

evangulck@hotmail.com

Affiliation Virology Unit, Microbiology Group, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp (ITMA), Antwerp, Belgium

Lotte Bracke

Affiliation Virology Unit, Microbiology Group, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp (ITMA), Antwerp, Belgium

Leo Heyndrickx

Affiliation Virology Unit, Microbiology Group, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp (ITMA), Antwerp, Belgium

Sandra Coppens

Affiliation Virology Unit, Microbiology Group, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp (ITMA), Antwerp, Belgium

Derek Atkinson

Affiliation Virology Unit, Microbiology Group, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp (ITMA), Antwerp, Belgium

Céline Merlin

Affiliation Virology Unit, Microbiology Group, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp (ITMA), Antwerp, Belgium

Alexander Pasternak

Affiliation Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology, Center for Infection and Immunity Amsterdam (CINIMA), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Eric Florence

Affiliation HIV/STD Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences, ITMA, Antwerp, Belgium

Guido Vanham

Affiliations Virology Unit, Microbiology Group, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp (ITMA), Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmaceutical, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EVG LH AP EF GV LB. Performed the experiments: EVG SC DA CM LB. Analyzed the data: EVG AP GV LB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LH AP. Wrote the paper: EVG GV. Patient selection and clinical follow up: EF.