About the Authors

Petra Emmerich

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department for Virology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, Department of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Center of Internal Medicine II, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Angela Mika

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Diagnostics Development Laboratory, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Ronald von Possel

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Anne Rackow

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Diagnostics Development Laboratory, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Yang Liu

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Diagnostics Development Laboratory, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Herbert Schmitz

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

Stephan Günther

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

Kurtesh Sherifi

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Agricultural and Veterinary Medicine, University of Pristhina “Hasan Prishtina”, Pristhina, Kosovo

Barie Halili

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University Clinical Center of Kosovo, Infectious Diseases Clinic, Pristhina, Kosovo

Xhevat Jakupi

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, National Institute for Public Health of Kosova, Prishtina, Kosovo

Lindita Berisha

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University Clinical Center of Kosovo, Infectious Diseases Clinic, Pristhina, Kosovo

Salih Ahmeti

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Prishtina “Hasan Prishtina”, Medical Faculty & University Clinical Center of Kosovo, Infectious Diseases Clinic, Prishtina, Kosovo

Christina Deschermeier

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

descherm@bnitm.de

Affiliation Diagnostics Development Laboratory, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: PE and HS are inventors of the IgG immune complex technology employing recombinant CD32 which is protected by European (EP2492689) and international (CN103460048, HK1192320, CA2823107, US2014080120) patents owned by the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM).