About the Authors
- Jan Felix Drexler
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Affiliations Clinical Virology Group, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany , Institute of Virology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany , Infectious Diseases Research Laboratory, University Hospital Prof. Edgard Santos, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
- Bernd Kupfer
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Affiliation Institute of Virology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Nadine Petersen
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Affiliation Clinical Virology Group, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
- Rejane Maria Tommasini Grotto
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Affiliation University of São Paulo State (UNESP), Botucatu Medical School, Blood Transfusion Centre - Molecular Biology Laboratory and Internal Medicine Department, Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil
- Silvia Maria Corvino Rodrigues
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Affiliation University of São Paulo State (UNESP), Botucatu Medical School, Blood Transfusion Centre - Molecular Biology Laboratory and Internal Medicine Department, Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil
- Klaus Grywna
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Affiliation Clinical Virology Group, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
- Marcus Panning
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Affiliation Clinical Virology Group, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
- Augustina Annan
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Affiliation Clinical Virology Group, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
- Giovanni Faria Silva
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Affiliation University of São Paulo State (UNESP), Botucatu Medical School, Blood Transfusion Centre - Molecular Biology Laboratory and Internal Medicine Department, Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil
- Jill Douglas
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Affiliation Virus Evolution Group, Centre for Infectious Diseases, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Evelyn S. C Koay
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Affiliations Department of Pathology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore , Molecular Diagnosis Centre, National University Hospital, Singapore
- Heidi Smuts
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Affiliation Division Medical Virology/National Health Laboratory Service, Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
- Eduardo M Netto
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Affiliation Infectious Diseases Research Laboratory, University Hospital Prof. Edgard Santos, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
- Peter Simmonds
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Affiliation Virus Evolution Group, Centre for Infectious Diseases, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Maria Inês de Moura Campos Pardini
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Affiliation University of São Paulo State (UNESP), Botucatu Medical School, Blood Transfusion Centre - Molecular Biology Laboratory and Internal Medicine Department, Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil
- W. Kurt Roth
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Affiliation GFE Blut mbH, Frankfurt (Main), Germany
- Christian Drosten
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: drosten@virology-bonn.de
Affiliation Institute of Virology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
JFD and CD conceived and designed the experiments. JFD, BK, NP, RMTG, SMCR, KG, MP, AA, GFS, JD, ESCK, HS, PS, MIdMCP, and WKR performed the experiments. JFD, EMN, and CD analyzed the data. BK, RMTG, SMCR, GFS, JD, ESCK, HS, PS, MIdMCP, and WKR contributed materials. JFD and CD wrote the paper.