About the Authors

Zoltán Bánki

Contributed equally to this work with: Zoltán Bánki, Wilfried Posch

Affiliation Department of Hygiene, Microbiology and Social Medicine, Division of Virology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Tirol, Austria

Wilfried Posch

Contributed equally to this work with: Zoltán Bánki, Wilfried Posch

Affiliation Department of Hygiene, Microbiology and Social Medicine, Division of Virology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Tirol, Austria

Asim Ejaz

Affiliation Department of Hygiene, Microbiology and Social Medicine, Division of Virology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Tirol, Austria

Verena Oberhauser

Affiliation Department of Hygiene, Microbiology and Social Medicine, Division of Virology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Tirol, Austria

Suzanne Willey

Affiliation MRC/UCL Centre for Medical Molecular Virology, Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Christoph Gassner

Affiliation Central Institute for Blood Transfusion & Immunological Department, Innsbruck, Tirol, Austria

Heribert Stoiber

Affiliation Department of Hygiene, Microbiology and Social Medicine, Division of Virology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Tirol, Austria

Ulf Dittmer

Affiliation Institute of Virology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Manfred P. Dierich

Affiliation Department of Hygiene, Microbiology and Social Medicine, Division of Virology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Tirol, Austria

Kim J. Hasenkrug

Affiliation Laboratory of Persistent Viral Diseases, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

Doris Wilflingseder

doris.wilflingseder@i-med.ac.at

Affiliation Department of Hygiene, Microbiology and Social Medicine, Division of Virology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Tirol, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZB WP MPD DW. Performed the experiments: ZB WP AE VO DW. Analyzed the data: ZB WP KJH DW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SW CG UD. Wrote the paper: ZB WP SW HS UD MPD KJH DW.