About the Authors

Jan Felix Drexler

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

Affiliation Institute of Virology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Nadine Petersen

Affiliation Clinical Virology Group, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Rejane Maria Tommasini Grotto

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

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

Affiliation Clinical Virology Group, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Marcus Panning

Affiliation Clinical Virology Group, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Augustina Annan

Affiliation Clinical Virology Group, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Giovanni Faria Silva

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

Affiliation Virus Evolution Group, Centre for Infectious Diseases, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Evelyn S. C Koay

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore , Molecular Diagnosis Centre, National University Hospital, Singapore

Heidi Smuts

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

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Research Laboratory, University Hospital Prof. Edgard Santos, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil

Peter Simmonds

Affiliation Virus Evolution Group, Centre for Infectious Diseases, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Maria Inês de Moura Campos Pardini

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

Affiliation GFE Blut mbH, Frankfurt (Main), Germany

Christian Drosten

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.