About the Authors

Andrea Mekker

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Molecular Life Science Graduate School, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Vincent S. Tchang

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Lea Haeberli

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Annette Oxenius

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, HCI 4, Zurich, Switzerland

Alexandra Trkola

Affiliation Institute of Medical Virology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Urs Karrer

urs.karrer@ksw.ch

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM VST AO UK. Performed the experiments: AM VST LH UK. Analyzed the data: AM UK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AO AT UK. Wrote the paper: AM AO UK.