About the Authors

Anna de Lang

Contributed equally to this work with: Anna de Lang, Tracey Baas

Affiliation Department of Virology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Tracey Baas

Contributed equally to this work with: Anna de Lang, Tracey Baas

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Thomas Teal

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Lonneke M Leijten

Affiliation Department of Virology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Brandon Rain

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Albert D Osterhaus

Affiliation Department of Virology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Bart L Haagmans

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: b.haagmans@erasmusmc.nl

Affiliation Department of Virology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Michael G Katze

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

AdL, TB, ADO, BLH, and MGK conceived and designed the experiments. AdL, TB, TT, LML, and BR performed the experiments. AdL, TB, and BLH analyzed the data. AdL, TB, ADO, BLH, and MGK wrote the paper.