About the Authors

Mario Konschake

Affiliations Institut für Epidemiologie, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Wusterhausen, Germany, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Hartmut H. K. Lentz

Affiliations Institut für Epidemiologie, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Wusterhausen, Germany, Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Franz J. Conraths

Affiliation Institut für Epidemiologie, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Wusterhausen, Germany

Philipp Hövel

Affiliations Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Center for Complex Network Research, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Thomas Selhorst

thomas.selhorst@fli.bund.de

Affiliation Institut für Epidemiologie, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Wusterhausen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MK HL PH TS. Performed the experiments: MK. Analyzed the data: MK HL. Wrote the paper: MK HL FC PH TS.