About the Authors

Gennady Bocharov

a First authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Institute of Numerical Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Roland Züst

a First authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Institute of Immunobiology, Kantonal Hospital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Luisa Cervantes-Barragan

Affiliation Institute of Immunobiology, Kantonal Hospital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Tatyana Luzyanina

Affiliation Institute of Mathematical Problems in Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia

Egor Chiglintsev

Affiliation Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia

Valery A. Chereshnev

Affiliation Institute of Immunology and Physiology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg, Russia

Volker Thiel

burkhard.ludewig@kssg.ch (BL); volker.thiel@kssg.ch (VT)

b Volker Thiel and Burkhard Ludewig share senior authorship.

Affiliations Institute of Immunobiology, Kantonal Hospital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland, VetSuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Burkhard Ludewig

burkhard.ludewig@kssg.ch (BL); volker.thiel@kssg.ch (VT)

b Volker Thiel and Burkhard Ludewig share senior authorship.

Affiliations Institute of Immunobiology, Kantonal Hospital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland, VetSuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GB VT BL. Performed the experiments: RZ LCB. Analyzed the data: GB RZ LCB TL EC VT BL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GB TL EC VAC. Wrote the paper: GB VT BL.