About the Authors

Zhongji Meng

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhongji Meng, Xiaoyong Zhang

Affiliations Institute of Virology, University Hospital of Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany, Department of Infectious Diseases, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, China

Xiaoyong Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhongji Meng, Xiaoyong Zhang

Affiliation Institute of Virology, University Hospital of Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Jun Wu

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Rongjuan Pei

Affiliation Institute of Virology, University Hospital of Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Yang Xu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Dongliang Yang

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Michael Roggendorf

Affiliation Institute of Virology, University Hospital of Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Mengji Lu

mengji.lu@uni-due.de

Affiliation Institute of Virology, University Hospital of Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZM XZ DY MR ML. Performed the experiments: ZM XZ JW RP YX. Analyzed the data: ZM XZ DY MR ML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZM XZ JW RP YX. Wrote the paper: ZM XZ ML.