About the Authors
- Michaela Lucas
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Contributed equally to this work with: Michaela Lucas, Axel Ulsenheimer
Affiliations Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Centre for Clinical Immunology and Biomedical Statistics, Royal Perth Hospital and Murdoch University, Perth, Australia
- Axel Ulsenheimer
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Contributed equally to this work with: Michaela Lucas, Axel Ulsenheimer
Affiliation Medical Department II and Institute for Immunology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
- Katja Pfafferot
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Affiliation Centre for Clinical Immunology and Biomedical Statistics, Royal Perth Hospital and Murdoch University, Perth, Australia
- Malte H.J. Heeg
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Affiliation Medical Department II and Institute for Immunology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
- Silvana Gaudieri
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Affiliations Centre for Clinical Immunology and Biomedical Statistics, Royal Perth Hospital and Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, Centre for Forensic Science, School of Anatomy and Human Biology, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Australia
- Norbert Grüner
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Affiliation Medical Department II and Institute for Immunology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
- Andri Rauch
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Affiliations Centre for Clinical Immunology and Biomedical Statistics, Royal Perth Hospital and Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, Division of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital, Berne, Switzerland
- J. Tilman Gerlach
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Affiliation Medical Department II and Institute for Immunology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
- Maria-Christina Jung
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Affiliation Medical Department II and Institute for Immunology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
- Reinhart Zachoval
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Affiliation Medical Department II and Institute for Immunology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
- Gerd R. Pape
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Affiliation Medical Department II and Institute for Immunology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
- Winfried Schraut
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Affiliation Medical Department II and Institute for Immunology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
- Teresa Santantonio
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Affiliation Clinica delle Malattie Infettive, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
- Hans Nitschko
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Affiliation Max von Pettenkofer-Institute, Department of Virology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
- Martin Obermeier
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Affiliation Max von Pettenkofer-Institute, Department of Virology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
- Rodney Phillips
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Affiliation Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Thomas J. Scriba
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Affiliation Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Nasser Semmo
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Affiliation Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Cheryl Day
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Affiliation Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Jonathan N. Weber
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Imperial College, St. Mary's Hospital, London, United Kingdom
- Sarah Fidler
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Imperial College, St. Mary's Hospital, London, United Kingdom
- Robert Thimme
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Affiliation Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany
- Anita Haberstroh
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Affiliation Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany
- Thomas F. Baumert
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Affiliation Inserm Unité 748, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
- Paul Klenerman
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Affiliation Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Helmut M. Diepolder
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: hdiepold@med.uni-muenchen.de
Affiliation Medical Department II and Institute for Immunology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: RP ML PK HD AU GP. Performed the experiments: ML RT PK AU KP MH SG AR HN MO AH. Analyzed the data: ML RT NS TS CD HD TB AU KP SG NG MJ GP HN MO AH WS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RP PK JW NS SF TS CD TB NG MJ RZ TS TG WS. Wrote the paper: HD. Other: Conceived and designed the study: MD. Enrolled patients: MD. Wrote the first draft of the paper: HD.