About the Authors

Lisa Oestereich

Affiliations Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Anja Lüdtke

Affiliations Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Heinrich Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute For Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany

Paula Ruibal

Affiliations Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Heinrich Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute For Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany

Elisa Pallasch

Affiliations Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Romy Kerber

Affiliations Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Toni Rieger

Affiliations Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Stephanie Wurr

Affiliations Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Sabrina Bockholt

Affiliations Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

José V. Pérez-Girón

† Deceased.

Affiliation Heinrich Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute For Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany

Susanne Krasemann

Affiliation Institute for Neuropathology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Stephan Günther

Contributed equally to this work with: Stephan Günther, César Muñoz-Fontela

Affiliations Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

César Muñoz-Fontela

Contributed equally to this work with: Stephan Günther, César Muñoz-Fontela

cesar.munoz-fontela@hpi.uni-hamburg.de

Affiliations Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Heinrich Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute For Experimental Virology, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LO SG CMF. Performed the experiments: LO AL PR TR JVPG SW EP SB RK. Analyzed the data: LO SK SG CMF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JVPG SK. Wrote the paper: SG CMF.