About the Authors

Xiaocui He

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute (FLI), Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Greifswald- Insel Riems, Germany

Tomáš Korytář

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute (FLI), Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Greifswald- Insel Riems, Germany

Yaqing Zhu

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute (FLI), Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Greifswald- Insel Riems, Germany

Jiří Pikula

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Diseases of Game, Fish and Bees, Faculty of Veterinary Hygiene and Ecology, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Brno, Czech Republic

Hana Bandouchova

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Diseases of Game, Fish and Bees, Faculty of Veterinary Hygiene and Ecology, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Brno, Czech Republic

Jan Zukal

Affiliations Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic, Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Bernd Köllner

bernd.koellner@fli.bund.de

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute (FLI), Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Greifswald- Insel Riems, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XH TK BK. Performed the experiments: XH YZ JP HB BK. Analyzed the data: XH YZ BK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XH JP HB JZ. Wrote the paper: XH TK JP BK.