About the Authors

Nadia Oreshkova

Affiliations Department of Virology, Central Veterinary Institute, part of Wageningen University and Research Centre, Lelystad, The Netherlands, Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Virology Division, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Lucien van Keulen

Affiliation Department of Virology, Central Veterinary Institute, part of Wageningen University and Research Centre, Lelystad, The Netherlands

Jet Kant

Affiliation Department of Virology, Central Veterinary Institute, part of Wageningen University and Research Centre, Lelystad, The Netherlands

Rob J. M. Moormann

Affiliations Department of Virology, Central Veterinary Institute, part of Wageningen University and Research Centre, Lelystad, The Netherlands, Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Virology Division, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Jeroen Kortekaas

jeroen.kortekaas@wur.nl

Affiliation Department of Virology, Central Veterinary Institute, part of Wageningen University and Research Centre, Lelystad, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: J. Kortekaas and R. J. M. Moormann are inventers of WIPO Patent Application WO/2012/039607 “Methods to produce bunyavirus replicon particles”.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NO LvK RM JKO. Performed the experiments: NO LvK JKA. Analyzed the data: NO JKO. Wrote the paper: NO.