About the Authors

Ya-Ping Ko

Contributed equally to this work with: Ya-Ping Ko, Annemarie Kuipers, Claudia M. Freitag, Ilse Jongerius

Affiliation Center for Infectious and Inflammatory Disease, Institute of Bioscience and Technology, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Annemarie Kuipers

Contributed equally to this work with: Ya-Ping Ko, Annemarie Kuipers, Claudia M. Freitag, Ilse Jongerius

Affiliation Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Claudia M. Freitag

Contributed equally to this work with: Ya-Ping Ko, Annemarie Kuipers, Claudia M. Freitag, Ilse Jongerius

Affiliations Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Utrecht University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Ilse Jongerius

Contributed equally to this work with: Ya-Ping Ko, Annemarie Kuipers, Claudia M. Freitag, Ilse Jongerius

Affiliations Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Eva Medina

Affiliation Infection Immunology Research Group, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Willemien J. van Rooijen

Affiliation Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

András N. Spaan

Affiliation Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Kok P. M. van Kessel

Affiliation Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Magnus Höök

Affiliation Center for Infectious and Inflammatory Disease, Institute of Bioscience and Technology, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Suzan H. M. Rooijakkers

s.h.m.rooijakkers@umcutrecht.nl

Affiliation Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YPK AK CMF IJ EM WJvR ANS KPMvK MH SHMR . Performed the experiments: YPK AK CMF IJ EM WJvR ANS. Analyzed the data: YPK AK CMF IJ EM KPMvK MH SHMR. Wrote the paper: YPK AK CMF IJ EM MH SHMR.