About the Authors

Magdalena Heindorf

Contributed equally to this work with: Magdalena Heindorf, Mahendar Kadari

Affiliation Robert Koch-Institute, Wernigerode Branch, Wernigerode, Germany

Mahendar Kadari

Contributed equally to this work with: Magdalena Heindorf, Mahendar Kadari

Affiliation Robert Koch-Institute, Wernigerode Branch, Wernigerode, Germany

Christine Heider

Affiliation Robert Koch-Institute, Wernigerode Branch, Wernigerode, Germany

Evelyn Skiebe

Affiliation Robert Koch-Institute, Wernigerode Branch, Wernigerode, Germany

Gottfried Wilharm

wilharmg@rki.de

Affiliation Robert Koch-Institute, Wernigerode Branch, Wernigerode, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MK MH CH GW. Performed the experiments: MH MK CH ES. Analyzed the data: MK MH CH ES GW. Wrote the paper: MK GW.