About the Authors

Ildar Gabaev

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Lars Steinbrück

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Claudia Pokoyski

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Andreas Pich

Affiliation Institute of Toxicology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Richard J. Stanton

Affiliation Section of Medical Microbiology, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Reinhard Schwinzer

Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Thomas F. Schulz

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Roland Jacobs

Affiliation Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Martin Messerle

messerle.martin@mh-hannover.de

These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Penelope C. Kay-Fedorov

These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IG AP RS RJ MM PCKF. Performed the experiments: IG LS CP AP RJ PCKF. Analyzed the data: IG LS CP AP RJS RS TFS RJ MM PCKF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RJS. Wrote the paper: MM PCKF.