About the Authors

Maria Bieringer

Affiliation Institute for Virology and Immunobiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Jung Woo Han

Affiliation Institute for Virology and Immunobiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Sabine Kendl

Affiliation Institute for Virology and Immunobiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Mojtaba Khosravi

Affiliation Department for Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Philippe Plattet

Affiliation Department for Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Jürgen Schneider-Schaulies

jss@vim.uni-wuerzburg.de

Affiliation Institute for Virology and Immunobiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JSS. Performed the experiments: MB JWH MK PP SK. Analyzed the data: JSS PP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JSS PP. Wrote the paper: JSS.