About the Authors

Olga Wiens

Contributed equally to this work with: Olga Wiens, Dong Xia

Affiliation Division of Molecular Pathobiology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Dong Xia

Contributed equally to this work with: Olga Wiens, Dong Xia

Affiliation Department of Infection Biology, Institute of Infection and Global Health & School of Veterinary Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England

Conrad von Schubert

Current address: Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

Affiliation Division of Molecular Pathobiology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Jonathan M. Wastling

Affiliations Department of Infection Biology, Institute of Infection and Global Health & School of Veterinary Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England, The National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England

Dirk A. E. Dobbelaere

† Deceased.

Affiliation Division of Molecular Pathobiology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Volker T. Heussler

Affiliation Institute of Cell Biology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Kerry L. Woods

kerry.woods@vetsuisse.unibe.ch

Affiliation Division of Molecular Pathobiology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OW DX JMW VH DAED KW. Performed the experiments: OW DX CvS. Analyzed the data: OW DX JMW VH KW. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: OW KW.