About the Authors

Abdul Mannan Baru

Affiliation Institute of Infection Immunology, TWINCORE, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research; A Joint Venture between the Medical School Hannover (MHH) and The Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Hannover, Germany

Christopher Untucht

Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher Untucht, Venkateswaran Ganesh

Affiliation Institute of Infection Immunology, TWINCORE, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research; A Joint Venture between the Medical School Hannover (MHH) and The Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Hannover, Germany

Venkateswaran Ganesh

Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher Untucht, Venkateswaran Ganesh

Affiliation Institute of Infection Immunology, TWINCORE, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research; A Joint Venture between the Medical School Hannover (MHH) and The Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Hannover, Germany

Christina Hesse

Affiliation Institute of Infection Immunology, TWINCORE, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research; A Joint Venture between the Medical School Hannover (MHH) and The Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Hannover, Germany

Christian T. Mayer

Affiliation Institute of Infection Immunology, TWINCORE, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research; A Joint Venture between the Medical School Hannover (MHH) and The Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Hannover, Germany

Tim Sparwasser

Tim.Sparwasser@twincore.de

Affiliation Institute of Infection Immunology, TWINCORE, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research; A Joint Venture between the Medical School Hannover (MHH) and The Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AMB CU VG CH CTM TS. Performed the experiments: AMB CU VG CH. Analyzed the data: AMB CU VG CH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AMB CU VG CH. Wrote the paper: AMB CU VG CH CTM TS.