About the Authors

Nadine Litzba

litzban@rki.de

Affiliation Robert Koch-Institut, Centre for Biological Security (ZBS-1), Berlin, Germany

Christoph S. Klade

Affiliation Intercell AG, Vienna, Austria

Sabine Lederer

Affiliation EUROIMMUN Medizinische Labordiagnostika AG, Lübeck, Germany

Matthias Niedrig

Affiliation Robert Koch-Institut, Centre for Biological Security (ZBS-1), Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

NL discloses a competing interest with the company EUROIMMUN, which funded her position at the Robert Koch-Institute.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NL SL MN. Performed the experiments: NL CSK. Analyzed the data: NL CSK SL MN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CSK SL MN. Wrote the paper: NL.