About the Authors

Nina Weller

Contributed equally to this work with: Nina Weller, Petra Clowes

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical Centre of the University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany

Petra Clowes

Contributed equally to this work with: Nina Weller, Petra Clowes

Affiliation National Institute for Medical Research -Mbeya Medical Research Center, Mbeya, Tanzania

Gerhard Dobler

Affiliations Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Munich, Munich, Germany

Elmar Saathoff

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical Centre of the University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Munich, Munich, Germany

Inge Kroidl

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical Centre of the University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany, National Institute for Medical Research -Mbeya Medical Research Center, Mbeya, Tanzania

Nyanda Elias Ntinginya

Affiliation National Institute for Medical Research -Mbeya Medical Research Center, Mbeya, Tanzania

Leonard Maboko

Affiliation National Institute for Medical Research -Mbeya Medical Research Center, Mbeya, Tanzania

Thomas Löscher

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical Centre of the University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany

Michael Hoelscher

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical Centre of the University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany, National Institute for Medical Research -Mbeya Medical Research Center, Mbeya, Tanzania, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Munich, Munich, Germany

Norbert Heinrich

heinrich@lrz.uni-muenchen.de

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical Centre of the University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Munich, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GD ES TL MH NH. Performed the experiments: NW NEN PC LM IK. Analyzed the data: ES NH NW GD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GD. Wrote the paper: NW PC ES TL NH.