About the Authors

Sarah Glorieux

Sarah.Glorieux@UGent.be

Affiliation Laboratory of Virology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Claus Bachert

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University Hospital Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

Herman W. Favoreel

Affiliations Laboratory of Virology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium, Laboratory of Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Annelies P. Vandekerckhove

Affiliation Laboratory of Virology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Lennert Steukers

Affiliation Laboratory of Virology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Anamaria Rekecki

Affiliation Department of Morphology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Wim Van den Broeck

Affiliation Department of Morphology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Joline Goossens

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Siska Croubels

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Reginald F. Clayton

Affiliation Tibotec BVBA, Beerse, Belgium

Hans J. Nauwynck

Affiliation Laboratory of Virology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

Competing Interests

Reginald Clayton is employed by a commercial company, Tibotec BVBA. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SG HWF HJN. Performed the experiments: SG APV LS AR JG SC. Analyzed the data: SG CB HWF WVdB RFC HJN. Wrote the paper: SG.