About the Authors

Marie Hagbom

Contributed equally to this work with: Marie Hagbom, Claudia Istrate

Affiliation Division of Molecular Virology, Medical Faculty, University of Linköping, Linköping, Sweden

Claudia Istrate

Contributed equally to this work with: Marie Hagbom, Claudia Istrate

Current address: Unidade de Microbiologia Medica, Centro de Malária e Outras Doenças Tropicais, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Affiliations Division of Molecular Virology, Medical Faculty, University of Linköping, Linköping, Sweden, Unidade de Biologia Molecular, Centro de Malaria e Outras Doenças Tropicais, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

David Engblom

Affiliation Division of Cell Biology, Medical Faculty, University of Linköping, Linköping, Sweden

Thommie Karlsson

Affiliation Division of Medical Microbiology, Medical Faculty, University of Linköping, Linköping, Sweden

Jesus Rodriguez-Diaz

Current address: Departamento de Biotecnología de Alimentos, Instituto de Agroquímica y Tecnología de Alimentos (IATA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Burjassot, Valencia, Spain

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Javier Buesa

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

John A. Taylor

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Vesa-Matti Loitto

Affiliation Division of Medical Microbiology, Medical Faculty, University of Linköping, Linköping, Sweden

Karl-Eric Magnusson

Affiliation Division of Medical Microbiology, Medical Faculty, University of Linköping, Linköping, Sweden

Håkan Ahlman

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Ove Lundgren

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Lennart Svensson

lennart.t.svensson@liu.se

Affiliation Division of Molecular Virology, Medical Faculty, University of Linköping, Linköping, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MH CI HA K-EM OL LS. Performed the experiments: MH CI DE JR-D JB JAT TK V-ML K-EM. Analyzed the data: MH CI DE TK K-EM OL LS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JR-D JAT HA. Wrote the paper: MH CI K-EM HA OL LS.