About the Authors

Camille Escadafal

escadafalc@rki.de

Affiliations ZBS-1, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany, European Public Health Microbiology Training Programme (EUPHEM), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Solna, Sweden

Tatjana Avšič-Županc

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology & Immunology, Medical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Olli Vapalahti

Affiliation Department of Virology, Haartman Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Bo Niklasson

Affiliations Apodemus AB, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Medical Cell Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Anette Teichmann

Affiliation ZBS-1, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Matthias Niedrig

Affiliation ZBS-1, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Oliver Donoso-Mantke

Affiliation ZBS-1, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MN OD CE. Performed the experiments: AT CE. Analyzed the data: CE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TAZ OV BN. Wrote the paper: CE.