About the Authors

Katrina Vanura

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, Div. of Hematology and Hemostaseology, Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC), Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Franz Rieder

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, Div. of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Marie-Theres Kastner

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, Div. of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Julia Biebl

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, Div. of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Michael Sandhofer

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, Div. of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Trang Le

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, Div. of Hematology and Hemostaseology, Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC), Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Robert Strassl

Affiliation Department of Virology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Elisabeth Puchhammer-Stöckl

Affiliation Department of Virology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Thomas Perkmann

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Christoph F. Steininger

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, Div. of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Kostas Stamatopoulos

Affiliation Hematology Department and HCT Unit, G. Papanicolaou Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece

Wolfgang Graninger

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, Div. of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Ulrich Jäger

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, Div. of Hematology and Hemostaseology, Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC), Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Christoph Steininger

christoph.steininger@meduniwien.ac.at

Affiliation Department of Medicine I, Div. of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KV WG UJ CS. Performed the experiments: KV FR MTK JB MS TL TP RS CFS CS. Analyzed the data: KV WG UJ CS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KV RS EPS TP KS WG UJ CS. Wrote the manuscript: KV FR JB RS EPS CS. Critically revised the manuscript and gave final approval for publishing: CS KV FR MTK JB MS TL RS EPS TP CFS KS WG UJ.