About the Authors

Kirsten K. Dietze

Affiliation Institute for Virology, University Hospital of Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Simone Schimmer

Affiliation Institute for Virology, University Hospital of Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Freya Kretzmer

Affiliation Institute for Virology, University Hospital of Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Junzhong Wang

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Yong Lin

Affiliation Institute for Virology, University Hospital of Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Xuan Huang

Affiliation Institute for Virology, University Hospital of Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Weimin Wu

Affiliation Institute for Virology, University Hospital of Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Baoju Wang

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Mengji Lu

Affiliation Institute for Virology, University Hospital of Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Ulf Dittmer

Contributed equally to this work with: Ulf Dittmer, Dongliang Yang, Jia Liu

Affiliation Institute for Virology, University Hospital of Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Dongliang Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Ulf Dittmer, Dongliang Yang, Jia Liu

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Jia Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ulf Dittmer, Dongliang Yang, Jia Liu

jialiu77@hotmail.com

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KD BW UD DY JL. Performed the experiments: KD SS FK JW YL WW ML JL. Analyzed the data: KD UD JL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XH ML JL. Wrote the paper: KD UD JL.