About the Authors

Christiane Riedel

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Justus-Liebig Universität, Giessen, Germany

Benjamin Lamp

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Justus-Liebig Universität, Giessen, Germany

Manuela Heimann

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Justus-Liebig Universität, Giessen, Germany

Matthias König

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Justus-Liebig Universität, Giessen, Germany

Sandra Blome

Current address: Institute of Diagnostic Virology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Insel Riems, Germany.

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Stiftung Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Volker Moennig

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Stiftung Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Christian Schüttler

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Justus-Liebig Universität, Giessen, Germany

Heinz-Jürgen Thiel

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Justus-Liebig Universität, Giessen, Germany

Tillmann Rümenapf

till.h.ruemenapf@vetmed.uni-giessen.de

Affiliation Institute of Virology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Justus-Liebig Universität, Giessen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CR BL MH MK SB VM HJT CS TR. Performed the experiments: CR BL MH MK SB CS TR. Analyzed the data: CR BL MH MK SB CS TR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CR BL MH VM MK SB CS TR. Wrote the paper: CR BL HJT SB MK TR.