About the Authors

Anna Obiegala

Contributed equally to this work with: Anna Obiegala, Dietlinde Woll

Anna.Obiegala@vetmed.uni-leipzig.de

Affiliations Comparative Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany, Institute of Animal Hygiene and Veterinary Public Health, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Dietlinde Woll

Contributed equally to this work with: Anna Obiegala, Dietlinde Woll

Affiliation Institute of Animal Hygiene and Veterinary Public Health, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Carolin Karnath

Affiliation Institute of Animal Hygiene and Veterinary Public Health, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Cornelia Silaghi

Current address: National Center of Vector Entomology, Institute of Parasitology, University of Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

Affiliation Comparative Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany

Susanne Schex

Affiliation Department of Virology and Rickettsiology, Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany

Sandra Eßbauer

Affiliation Department of Virology and Rickettsiology, Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany

Martin Pfeffer

Affiliation Institute of Animal Hygiene and Veterinary Public Health, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CS MP SE. Performed the experiments: MP SE DW SS CK AO. Analyzed the data: DW AO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CS MP SE. Wrote the paper: AO SE CS MP.