About the Authors

Geoffrey P. Chase

Affiliations Department of Virology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine (SGBM), University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Marie-Anne Rameix-Welti

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Aurelija Zvirbliene

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

Gintautas Zvirblis

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

Veronika Götz

Affiliation Department of Virology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Thorsten Wolff

Affiliation Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

Nadia Naffakh

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Martin Schwemmle

martin.schwemmle@uniklinik-freiburg.de

Affiliation Department of Virology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GC NN MS. Performed the experiments: GC MARW AZ GZ VG. Analyzed the data: GC NN TW MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MARW AZ GZ TW NN. Wrote the paper: GC MS.