About the Authors

Lisa Oestereich

Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa Oestereich, Toni Rieger

Affiliations Department of Virology, Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Hamburg, Germany

Toni Rieger

Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa Oestereich, Toni Rieger

Affiliations Department of Virology, Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Hamburg, Germany

Melanie Neumann

Affiliation Mouse Pathology Core Facility, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Christian Bernreuther

Affiliation Institute of Neuropathology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Maria Lehmann

Affiliations Department of Virology, Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Hamburg, Germany

Susanne Krasemann

Affiliation Mouse Pathology Core Facility, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Stephanie Wurr

Affiliations Department of Virology, Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Hamburg, Germany

Petra Emmerich

Affiliations Department of Virology, Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Hamburg, Germany

Xavier de Lamballerie

Affiliation Aix Marseille Université, IRD French Institute of Research for Development, EHESP French School of Public Health, UMR_D 190 “Emergence des Pathologies Virales”, Marseille, France

Stephan Ölschläger

Current address: altona Diagnostics GmbH, Hamburg, Germany

SÖ and SG also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Virology, Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Stephan Günther

guenther@bni.uni-hamburg.de

SÖ and SG also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Virology, Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LO TR XdL SÖ SG. Performed the experiments: LO TR MN ML SK SW SÖ. Analyzed the data: LO TR MN CB ML SK SÖ SG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PE. Wrote the paper: LO TR MN CB SÖ SG.