About the Authors

Petra Emmerich

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Virology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, WHO Collaborating Centre for Arbovirus and Hemorrhagic Fever Reference and Research, Hamburg, Germany, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Ronald von Possel

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Department of Virology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, WHO Collaborating Centre for Arbovirus and Hemorrhagic Fever Reference and Research, Hamburg, Germany

Christina Deschermeier

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

Salih Ahmeti

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Lindita Berisha

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Bahrije Halili

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Xhevat Jakupi

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Kurtesh Sherifi

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Claudia Messing

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Experimental Immunology, affiliated with EUROIMMUN Medizinische Labordiagnostika AG, Luebeck, Germany

Viola Borchardt-Lohölter

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft

v.borchardt-lohoelter@euroimmun.de

Affiliation Institute for Experimental Immunology, affiliated with EUROIMMUN Medizinische Labordiagnostika AG, Luebeck, Germany

Competing Interests

PE is one of the 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). CM and VBL are employees of EUROIMMUN Medizinische Labordiagnostika AG.