About the Authors

Toni Luise Meister

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

Affiliations Department for Molecular and Medical Virology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, Institute for Infection Research and Vaccine Development (IIRVD), Centre for Internal Medicine, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, Department for Clinical Immunology of Infectious Diseases, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), Hamburg, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner site Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, Hamburg, Germany

Nicola Frericks

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department for Molecular and Medical Virology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Robin D. V. Kleinert

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

Affiliation Division of Veterinary Medicine, Paul-Ehrlich-Institute, Langen, Germany

Estefanía Rodríguez

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner site Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel-Riems, Hamburg, Germany, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Joerg Steinmann

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Clinical Hygiene, Medical Microbiology and Infectiology, General Hospital Nürnberg, Paracelsus Medical University, Nuremberg, Germany, Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital of Essen, Essen, Germany

Daniel Todt

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department for Molecular and Medical Virology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, European Virus Bioinformatics Center (EVBC), Jena, Germany

Richard J. P. Brown

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

richard.brown@ruhr-uni-bochum.de (RJPB); eike.steinmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de (ES)

Affiliations Department for Molecular and Medical Virology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, Division of Veterinary Medicine, Paul-Ehrlich-Institute, Langen, Germany

Eike Steinmann

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft

richard.brown@ruhr-uni-bochum.de (RJPB); eike.steinmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de (ES)

Affiliations Department for Molecular and Medical Virology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), External Partner Site, Bochum, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.