About the Authors

Stephanie Rattay

Contributed equally to this work with: Stephanie Rattay, Dirk Graf

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Institute of Virology, Heinrich-Heine-University, University Hospital, Duesseldorf, Germany, Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Pharmacology, University Hospital, Bonn, Germany

Dirk Graf

Contributed equally to this work with: Stephanie Rattay, Dirk Graf

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, Heinrich-Heine-University, University Hospital, Duesseldorf, Germany

Andreas Kislat

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Heinrich-Heine-University, University Hospital, Duesseldorf, Germany

Bernhard Homey

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Heinrich-Heine-University, University Hospital, Duesseldorf, Germany

Diran Herebian

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of General Pediatrics, Neonatology and Pediatric Cardiology, Heinrich-Heine-University, University Hospital, Duesseldorf, Germany

Dieter Häussinger

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, Heinrich-Heine-University, University Hospital, Duesseldorf, Germany

Hartmut Hengel

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

Affiliations Institute of Virology, Medical Center, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, Germany, Department for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Institute of Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, Germany

Albert Zimmermann

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

albert.zimmermann@uni-duesseldorf.de

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Heinrich-Heine-University, University Hospital, Duesseldorf, Germany

Anna-Kathrin Schupp

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, Heinrich-Heine-University, University Hospital, Duesseldorf, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.