About the Authors

Larisa Rudenko

Affiliation Department of Virology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Irina Kiseleva

irina.v.kiseleva@mail.ru

Affiliation Department of Virology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Anatoly N. Naykhin

Affiliation Department of Virology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Marianna Erofeeva

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Prophylaxis, Institute of Influenza, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Marina Stukova

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Institute of Influenza, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Svetlana Donina

Affiliation Department of Virology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Galina Petukhova

Affiliation Department of Virology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Maria Pisareva

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Institute of Influenza, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Vera Krivitskaya

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Institute of Influenza, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Michael Grudinin

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Institute of Influenza, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Zhanna Buzitskaya

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Institute of Influenza, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Irina Isakova–Sivak

Affiliation Department of Virology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Svetlana Kuznetsova

Affiliation Department of Virology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Natalie Larionova

Affiliation Department of Virology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Julia Desheva

Affiliation Department of Virology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Irina Dubrovina

Affiliation Department of Virology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Alexandra Nikiforova

Affiliation Department of Preclinical Trials, Microgen, Moscow, Russia

John C. Victor

Affiliation Program for Appropriate Technologies in Health, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Kathy Neuzil

Affiliation Program for Appropriate Technologies in Health, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Jorge Flores

Affiliation Program for Appropriate Technologies in Health, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Vadim Tsvetnitsky

Affiliation Program for Appropriate Technologies in Health, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Oleg Kiselev

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Institute of Influenza, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VT JCV KN JF OK AN ME LR MS. Performed the experiments: SD GP MP VK ZB II–S SK NL ID IK ME MS. Analyzed the data: KN JF LR AN MS MG IK ANN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JD. Wrote the paper: IK LR VT JCV KN JF.