About the Authors

Jolanta Kolodziejek

Affiliation Viral Zoonoses, Emerging and Vector-Borne Infections Group, Institute of Virology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Bernhard Seidel

Affiliation Technical Office of Ecology and Landscape Assessment, Persenbeug, Austria

Christof Jungbauer

Affiliation Austrian Red Cross, Blood Service for Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland, Vienna, Austria

Katharina Dimmel

Affiliation Viral Zoonoses, Emerging and Vector-Borne Infections Group, Institute of Virology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Michael Kolodziejek

Affiliation Viral Zoonoses, Emerging and Vector-Borne Infections Group, Institute of Virology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Ivo Rudolf

Affiliation Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i., Brno, Czech Republic

Zdenek Hubálek

Affiliation Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i., Brno, Czech Republic

Franz Allerberger

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), Vienna, Austria

Norbert Nowotny

nowotny@squ.edu.om

Affiliations Viral Zoonoses, Emerging and Vector-Borne Infections Group, Institute of Virology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JK NN FA ZH. Performed the experiments: JK BS ZH IR KD MK. Analyzed the data: JK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CJ BS. Wrote the paper: FA NN CJ BS ZH IR KD MK.