About the Authors

Kaiyi Zhang

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Aline Dupont

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Natalia Torow

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Fredrik Gohde

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Sara Leschner

Affiliation Department of Molecular Immunology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Braunschweig, Germany

Stefan Lienenklaus

Affiliation Department of Molecular Immunology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Braunschweig, Germany

Siegfried Weiss

Affiliation Department of Molecular Immunology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Braunschweig, Germany

Melanie M. Brinkmann

Affiliation Department of Viral Immune Modulation, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Braunschweig, Germany

Mark Kühnel

Affiliation Centre for Anatomy, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Michael Hensel

Affiliation Division of Microbiology, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

Marcus Fulde

fulde.marcus@mh-hannover.de (MF); hornef.mathias@mh-hannover.de (MWH)

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Mathias W. Hornef

fulde.marcus@mh-hannover.de (MF); hornef.mathias@mh-hannover.de (MWH)

Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AD SLi MH MF MWH. Performed the experiments: KZ AD NT FG SLe SLi MF MK. Analyzed the data: KZ AD NT MF MK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SLe SLi SW MMB MH. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: SW MMB MH MF MWH.