About the Authors

Fee Zimmermann

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Robert Koch Institute, P3: “Epidemiology of Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms", Seestraße 10, Berlin, Germany, Robert Koch Institute, ZBS 2: Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms, Seestraße 10, Berlin, Germany

Susanne M. Köhler

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Robert Koch Institute, P3: “Epidemiology of Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms", Seestraße 10, Berlin, Germany

Kathrin Nowak

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Robert Koch Institute, P3: “Epidemiology of Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms", Seestraße 10, Berlin, Germany

Susann Dupke

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Robert Koch Institute, ZBS 2: Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms, Seestraße 10, Berlin, Germany

Anne Barduhn

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Robert Koch Institute, ZBS 2: Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms, Seestraße 10, Berlin, Germany

Ariane Düx

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Robert Koch Institute, P3: “Epidemiology of Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms", Seestraße 10, Berlin, Germany

Alexander Lang

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Robert Koch Institute, P3: “Epidemiology of Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms", Seestraße 10, Berlin, Germany

Hélène M. De Nys

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Robert Koch Institute, P3: “Epidemiology of Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms", Seestraße 10, Berlin, Germany

Jan F. Gogarten

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Robert Koch Institute, P3: “Epidemiology of Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms", Seestraße 10, Berlin, Germany, Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, Primatology Department, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig, Germany

Roland Grunow

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Robert Koch Institute, ZBS 2: Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms, Seestraße 10, Berlin, Germany

Emmanuel Couacy-Hymann

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Virology, LANADA/LCVB, Bingerville, Côte d'Ivoire

Roman M. Wittig

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Primatology Department, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig, Germany, Taï Chimpanzee Project, Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques, Abidjan 01, Côte d’Ivoire

Silke R. Klee

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Robert Koch Institute, ZBS 2: Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms, Seestraße 10, Berlin, Germany

Fabian H. Leendertz

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

LeendertzF@rki.de

Affiliation Robert Koch Institute, P3: “Epidemiology of Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms", Seestraße 10, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.