About the Authors

Benjamin Mänz

Contributed equally to this work with: Benjamin Mänz, Dominik Dornfeld

Current address: Department of Viroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Affiliation Department of Virology, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Dominik Dornfeld

Contributed equally to this work with: Benjamin Mänz, Dominik Dornfeld

Affiliation Department of Virology, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Veronika Götz

Affiliation Department of Virology, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Roland Zell

Affiliation Institute of Virology und Antiviral Therapy, Universitätsklinikum Jena, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany

Petra Zimmermann

Affiliation Department of Virology, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Otto Haller

Affiliation Department of Virology, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Georg Kochs

georg.kochs@uniklinik-freiburg.de (GK); martin.schwemmle@uniklinik-freiburg.de (MS)

Affiliation Department of Virology, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Martin Schwemmle

georg.kochs@uniklinik-freiburg.de (GK); martin.schwemmle@uniklinik-freiburg.de (MS)

Affiliation Department of Virology, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS BM GK. Performed the experiments: MS BM DD VG PZ RZ. Analyzed the data: MS GK BM DD OH RZ. Wrote the paper: MS GK BM OH.