About the Authors

Veronika Dill

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Diagnostic Virology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Greifswald, Insel Riems, Germany

Florian Pfaff

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Diagnostic Virology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Greifswald, Insel Riems, Germany

Aline Zimmer

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Merck Life Sciences, Upstream R&D, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

Martin Beer

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Diagnostic Virology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Greifswald, Insel Riems, Germany

Michael Eschbaumer

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

michael.eschbaumer@fli.de

Affiliation Institute of Diagnostic Virology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Greifswald, Insel Riems, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors declare no conflict of interest. VD’s position was funded by a project grant from Merck Life Science. AZ is an employee of Merck Life Science. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.