About the Authors

Andreas Schweizer

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Peter Rusert

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Livia Berlinger

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Claudia R. Ruprecht

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Axel Mann

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Stéphanie Corthésy

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Stuart G. Turville

Current address: Center for Virus Research, Westmead Millennium Institute, Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Research, Population Council, New York, New York, United States of America

Meropi Aravantinou

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Research, Population Council, New York, New York, United States of America

Marek Fischer

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Melissa Robbiani

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Research, Population Council, New York, New York, United States of America

Patrick Amstutz

Affiliation Molecular Partners AG, Zurich-Schlieren, Switzerland

Alexandra Trkola

alexandra.trkola@usz.ch

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Competing Interests

PA is affiliated with Molecular Partners AG (Switzerland), which is developing designed repeat proteins as binding agents for research, diagnostics, and therapy.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS PR LB CRR AM SGT MF MR PA AT. Performed the experiments: AS PR LB CRR AM SC SGT MA. Analyzed the data: AS PR LB CRR AM SGT MR PA AT. Wrote the paper: AS AT.