About the Authors

Talin Barisani-Asenbauer

Contributed equally to this work with: Talin Barisani-Asenbauer, Aleksandra Inic-Kanada

talin.barisani@meduniwien.ac.at

Affiliation OCUVAC – Center of Ocular Inflammation and Infection, Laura Bassi Centers of Expertise, Institute of Specific Prophylaxis and Tropical Medicine, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Aleksandra Inic-Kanada

Contributed equally to this work with: Talin Barisani-Asenbauer, Aleksandra Inic-Kanada

Affiliation OCUVAC – Center of Ocular Inflammation and Infection, Laura Bassi Centers of Expertise, Institute of Specific Prophylaxis and Tropical Medicine, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Sandra Belij

Affiliation OCUVAC – Center of Ocular Inflammation and Infection, Laura Bassi Centers of Expertise, Institute of Specific Prophylaxis and Tropical Medicine, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Emilija Marinkovic

Affiliation Department of Research and Development, Institute of Virology, Vaccines and Sera – TORLAK, Belgrade, Serbia

Ivana Stojicevic

Affiliation Department of Research and Development, Institute of Virology, Vaccines and Sera – TORLAK, Belgrade, Serbia

Jacqueline Montanaro

Affiliation OCUVAC – Center of Ocular Inflammation and Infection, Laura Bassi Centers of Expertise, Institute of Specific Prophylaxis and Tropical Medicine, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Elisabeth Stein

Affiliation OCUVAC – Center of Ocular Inflammation and Infection, Laura Bassi Centers of Expertise, Institute of Specific Prophylaxis and Tropical Medicine, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Nora Bintner

Affiliation OCUVAC – Center of Ocular Inflammation and Infection, Laura Bassi Centers of Expertise, Institute of Specific Prophylaxis and Tropical Medicine, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Marijana Stojanovic

Affiliation Department of Research and Development, Institute of Virology, Vaccines and Sera – TORLAK, Belgrade, Serbia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TBA AIK MS. Performed the experiments: AIK SB EM IS JM ES NB MS. Analyzed the data: MS AIK TBA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TBA AIK SB EM IS JM ES NB MS. Wrote the paper: AIK MS TBA.