About the Authors

Marga G. A. Goris

Contributed equally to this work with: Marga G. A. Goris, Jiri F. P. Wagenaar

m.goris@kit.nl

Affiliation Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), KIT Biomedical Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Jiri F. P. Wagenaar

Contributed equally to this work with: Marga G. A. Goris, Jiri F. P. Wagenaar

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Slotervaart Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Rudy A. Hartskeerl

Affiliation Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), KIT Biomedical Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Eric C. M. van Gorp

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Slotervaart Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Virology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Simone Schuller

Affiliation Veterinary Sciences Centre, School of Agriculture Food Science and Veterinary Medicine, College of Life Sciences, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Avril M. Monahan

Affiliation Veterinary Sciences Centre, School of Agriculture Food Science and Veterinary Medicine, College of Life Sciences, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Jarlath E. Nally

Affiliation Veterinary Sciences Centre, School of Agriculture Food Science and Veterinary Medicine, College of Life Sciences, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Tom van der Poll

Affiliations Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Center for Infection and Immunity Amsterdam (CINIMA), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Cornelis van 't Veer

Affiliations Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Center for Infection and Immunity Amsterdam (CINIMA), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed: MG JW RH TP CV EG. Analyzed the data: MG JW RH CV AM SS JN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RH TP JN. Wrote the manuscript: MG JW RH CV.