About the Authors

Ann-Kathrin Uhde

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Vanessa Herder

Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany, Center for Systems Neuroscience, Hannover, Germany

Muhammad Akram Khan

Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany, Center for Systems Neuroscience, Hannover, Germany, Department of Pathobiology, Faculty of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, PMAS—Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Malgorzata Ciurkiewicz

Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany, Center for Systems Neuroscience, Hannover, Germany

Dirk Schaudien

Affiliation Fraunhofer—Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine ITEM, Hannover, Germany

René Teich

Affiliation Experimental Immunology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Stefan Floess

Affiliation Experimental Immunology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Wolfgang Baumgärtner

Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany, Center for Systems Neuroscience, Hannover, Germany

Jochen Huehn

Contributed equally to this work with: Jochen Huehn, Andreas Beineke

Affiliation Experimental Immunology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Andreas Beineke

Contributed equally to this work with: Jochen Huehn, Andreas Beineke

andreas.beineke@tiho-hannover.de

Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany, Center for Systems Neuroscience, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AB VH JH SF RT WB. Data curation: AB. Formal analysis: AB JH SF RT WB VH. Funding acquisition: AB WB JH. Investigation: AB VH AU DS MAK RT SF MC JH. Methodology: AB VH JH WB. Project administration: AB JH WB. Resources: AB JH WB. Supervision: AB JH WB. Validation: AB. Visualization: AU VH. Writing – original draft: AB AU JH. Writing – review & editing: VH AB AU VH MC DS SF JH.