About the Authors

Michael Schindler

Current address: Heinrich-Pette-Institut, Hamburg, Germany

Affiliation Institute of Virology, University of Ulm, Germany

Jan Schmökel

Affiliation Institute of Virology, University of Ulm, Germany

Anke Specht

Affiliation Institute of Virology, University of Ulm, Germany

Hui Li

Affiliation Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Jan Münch

Affiliation Institute of Virology, University of Ulm, Germany

Mohammad Khalid

Affiliation Institute of Virology, University of Ulm, Germany

Donald L. Sodora

Affiliation University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Beatrice H. Hahn

Affiliation Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Guido Silvestri

Affiliations Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Frank Kirchhoff

frank.kirchhoff@uniklinik-ulm.de

Affiliation Institute of Virology, University of Ulm, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS BHH GS FK. Performed the experiments: MS JS AS HL MK. Analyzed the data: MS JS BHH GS FK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JM DLS BHH GS FK. Wrote the paper: FK.