About the Authors

Patricia M. Fliss

Affiliations Heinrich Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany, Division of Viral Infections, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Tali Pechenick Jowers

Affiliation Division of Pathway Medicine, Centre for Infectious Diseases, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Melanie M. Brinkmann

Affiliation Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Barbara Holstermann

Affiliation Heinrich Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany

Claudia Mack

Current address: Department of Dermatology, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.

Affiliation Division of Viral Infections, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Paul Dickinson

Affiliation Division of Pathway Medicine, Centre for Infectious Diseases, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Heinrich Hohenberg

Affiliation Heinrich Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany

Peter Ghazal

Affiliation Division of Pathway Medicine, Centre for Infectious Diseases, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Wolfram Brune

wolfram.brune@hpi.uni-hamburg.de

Affiliations Heinrich Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany, Division of Viral Infections, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PMF TPJ MMB HH PG WB. Performed the experiments: PMF TPJ MMB BH. Analyzed the data: PMF TPJ MMB BH PD PG WB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CM. Wrote the paper: PG WB.