About the Authors

Carolin Brandl

Affiliation Institute of Virology and Immunobiology, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

Sonja Ortler

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

Thomas Herrmann

Affiliation Institute of Virology and Immunobiology, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

Susanna Cardell

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Biomedicine, Goteborg University, Goteborg, Sweden

Manfred B. Lutz

m.lutz@vim.uni-wuerzburg.de

Affiliation Institute of Virology and Immunobiology, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

Heinz Wiendl

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MBL HW. Performed the experiments: CB SO. Analyzed the data: CB SO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TH SC. Wrote the paper: CB SO MBL HW.