About the Authors

Birte Blankenhaus

Contributed equally to this work with: Birte Blankenhaus, Martina Reitz

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Martina Reitz

Contributed equally to this work with: Birte Blankenhaus, Martina Reitz

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Yannick Brenz

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Marie-Luise Eschbach

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Wiebke Hartmann

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Irma Haben

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Tim Sparwasser

Affiliation Institute of Infection Immunology, TWINCORE, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research; a joint venture between the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research Braunschweig and the Hanover Medical School, Hanover, Germany

Jochen Huehn

Affiliation Experimental Immunology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Anja Kühl

Affiliation Medizinische Klinik für Gastroenterologie, Infektiologie und Rheumatologie, Charité-Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany

Thorsten B. Feyerabend

Affiliation Division for Cellular Immunology, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Germany

Hans-Reimer Rodewald

Affiliation Division for Cellular Immunology, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Germany

Minka Breloer

breloer@bnitm.de

Affiliation Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MB BB WH JH TS MR AK HRR TBF. Performed the experiments: BB YB MLE AK WH MR MB IH. Analyzed the data: BB YB AK MB WH MR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TS JH AK HRR TBF. Wrote the paper: MB.