About the Authors

Isabella Eckerle

eckerle@virology-bonn.de

Affiliations Section of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Institute of Virology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany

Kerstin Daniela Rosenberger

Affiliation Section of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Marcel Zwahlen

Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Thomas Junghanss

Affiliation Section of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IE KDR MZ TJ. Performed the experiments: IE TJ. Analyzed the data: IE KDR MZ TJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IE KDR MZ TJ. Wrote the paper: IE KDR MZ TJ.