About the Authors

Sarah Korup

Contributed equally to this work with: Sarah Korup, Janita Rietscher

Affiliation Division of Viral Infections, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Janita Rietscher

Contributed equally to this work with: Sarah Korup, Janita Rietscher

Affiliation Division of Viral Infections, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Sébastien Calvignac-Spencer

Affiliation Research Group Emerging Zoonoses, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Franziska Trusch

Affiliation Division of Viral Infections, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Jörg Hofmann

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Ugo Moens

Affiliation Department of Medical Biology, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

Igor Sauer

Affiliation General, Visceral, and Transplantation Surgery, Experimental Surgery and Regenerative Medicine, Charité-Campus Virchow, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

Sebastian Voigt

Affiliation Division of Viral Infections, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Rosa Schmuck

Affiliation General, Visceral, and Transplantation Surgery, Experimental Surgery and Regenerative Medicine, Charité-Campus Virchow, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

Bernhard Ehlers

EhlersB@rki.de

Affiliation Division of Viral Infections, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SK JR SCS FT JH IS SV RS UM BE. Performed the experiments: SK JR SCS FT JH SV RS. Analyzed the data: SK JR SCS FT JH UM IS SV RS BE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JH SV RS BE. Wrote the paper: SK JR SCS FT JH UM SV RS BE.