About the Authors

Wegene Borena

wegene.borena@i-med.ac.at

Affiliation Division of Virology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

Tamara Hofer

Affiliation Division of Virology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

Karin Stiasny

Affiliation Center for Virology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Stephan W. Aberle

Affiliation Center for Virology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Manfred Gaber

Affiliation Tyrolean Red Cross blood donor service, Innsbruck, Austria

Dorothee von Laer

Affiliation Division of Virology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

Harald Schennach

Affiliation Central Institute for Blood Transfusion and Immunology, Medical University Hospital Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: WB DVL HS. Data curation: WB TH SWA KS MG. Formal analysis: WB. Funding acquisition: WB. Investigation: WB TH MG. Methodology: WB SH. Project administration: WB. Resources: SWA KS WB HS. Supervision: DVL HS. Writing – original draft: WB. Writing – review & editing: WB TH SWA.