About the Authors

Bianca Dauber

Current address: Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Affiliation P15, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

Luis Martínez-Sobrido

Affiliation School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Jana Schneider

Affiliation P15, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

Rong Hai

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Zoe Waibler

Affiliation Division of Immunology, Paul Ehrlich Institut, Langen, Germany

Ulrich Kalinke

Affiliation Division of Immunology, Paul Ehrlich Institut, Langen, Germany

Adolfo García-Sastre

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Emerging Pathogens Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Thorsten Wolff

WolffT@RKI.de

Affiliation P15, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BD AGS TW. Performed the experiments: BD LMS JS RH. Analyzed the data: BD LMS JS RH AGS TW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZW UK. Wrote the paper: BD TW.