About the Authors

Elena Popugaeva

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Helmut-Ruska-Haus, Charité Medical School, Berlin, Germany

Peter T. Witkowski

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Helmut-Ruska-Haus, Charité Medical School, Berlin, Germany

Mathias Schlegel

Affiliation Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Institute for Novel and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany

Rainer G. Ulrich

Affiliation Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Institute for Novel and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany

Brita Auste

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Helmut-Ruska-Haus, Charité Medical School, Berlin, Germany

Andreas Rang

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Helmut-Ruska-Haus, Charité Medical School, Berlin, Germany

Detlev H. Krüger

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Helmut-Ruska-Haus, Charité Medical School, Berlin, Germany

Boris Klempa

boris.klempa@charite.de

Affiliations Institute of Virology, Helmut-Ruska-Haus, Charité Medical School, Berlin, Germany, Institute of Virology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EP PTW AR DHK BK. Performed the experiments: EP PTW BA. Analyzed the data: EP PTW DHK BK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS RGU AR. Wrote the paper: EP BK.