About the Authors

Yi Luo

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi Luo, Nora Möhn

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Nora Möhn

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi Luo, Nora Möhn

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Amani Al-Mekhlafi

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Sven Schuchardt

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine (ITEM), Hannover, Germany

Thomas Skripuletz

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Wolfram Sühs

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Frank Pessler

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany, TWINCORE Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research, Hannover, Germany

Martin Stangel

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Stangel.Martin@mh-hannover.de

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.